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Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

06/24/2004 03:09:50 PM · #1

Well, I should be happy, my uSmart 20gig Jukebox arrived today and when I turn it on I get a 'device error' message The instruction booklet (scant) tells me to run a scan on the drive but windows xp keeps telling me to insert a disk? anybody any ideas? I'm off to see if I can find anymore info.
Thanks.

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

06/24/2004 03:17:25 PM · #2

I know this is a very stupid question, but is there actually a hard drive in it? A lot of these babies (not necesarily this brand) for sale on Ebay are sold without any harddrive installed: the person buying then has to buy a laptop hard drive (20GB, 40GB, 60 GB, etc.)and install it themselves or have it installed. Make sure yours was supposed to have a drive already installed at time of purchase.

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR

06/24/2004 03:36:29 PM · #3

Originally posted by Beagleboy:

lol, first thing I looked for :) I did check and reseated the hd just in case. The cf reader works until it tries to copy to the hd.
One thing, when I right click on properties the file type is blank, is there a way to change it to fat?

jadin

Nikon D800

06/24/2004 03:48:08 PM · #4

if it shows up in windows explorer, right click on the device / drive and click format.

06/24/2004 03:53:20 PM · #5

Originally posted by jadin:

if it shows up in windows explorer, right click on the device / drive and click format.

It shows up but when I right click to format I get,

There is no disk in drive I
Insert a disk and try again

The 'device error' message comes when I'm not connected to the pc via USB.

When I insert a cfc it reads the data and falls over when copying to the disk. I'm getting p****d off right now, I bought for my holiday in 7 days and really need to fix this without sending it back :(

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR

06/24/2004 07:01:20 PM · #6

Sorted (almost)

Now, I can't remember exactly where I went to but it was drive management and I re partitioned the drive then reformated it and set the drive to 'S'. It now shows up in my computer as a new drive (S) and I ignore the USB drive (I) that I cannot connect to.

jadin

Nikon D800

06/24/2004 07:58:17 PM · #7

Ok. Well it's probably not FAT anymore. Windows xp is (usually) NTFS. Chances are it was in a partition type your computer was setup to read (FAT, FAT32). Not sure why Micro$oft didn't add FAT support for xp. (stability reasons maybe?)

So now your device is probably NTFS, and won't show up if you plug it into someone else's computer that has Windows 98 or similar.

(note the probably's)

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR

06/24/2004 08:05:41 PM · #8

Originally posted by jadin:

Probably noted!
Am currently listening to mp3's on it (Pink ;) and I reformatted as FAT not NTFS, the problem was obviously with the drive not XP.
Am glad I can now port images from a cfc into the jukebox and transfer them to the pc, even though it took some time I have a 20gb 'field' storage device for Â£110 :)

jadin

Nikon D800

06/24/2004 08:07:16 PM · #9

Good deal. :)

That'd sure be handy. . . /ponder.

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

06/24/2004 08:22:39 PM · #10

I have one too, although not same brand and it rocks. All you have to do is remember to charge it up before bringing into the field. Mine is also a 20GB.