[CurtDawg77]

I did somewhat the same thing that everyones else did to screw up my ifp-599t. I found what some found to be the fix, but it didn't work for me since I had totally deleted the partition and everything. This is the answer to about 6 months of headache and so i am posting it so if someone else has the problem they will know how to do it. So i deleted my partition during and install of WinXP by accident. Not sure exactly how, but I did. To make a long story short, you have to get a program that will let you see all the partitions. Now this is a little complicated, but if you used Partition Manager, or whatever software you want and repartition the damn thing, for some reason it seems not to take. I then booted into Active@ Kill Disk, which is free on the net, and it showed me that there was unassigned disk space that was leading the partition. So I then booted using the mp3 player so that I could run fdisk (get bootdisk.com and HP Utility to make it bootable). Now here is the tricky thing. You use fdisk to delete the old partitions, but you have to use the Large Disk Support. I know this sounds wrong because of the FAT16 thing, but it did not work when I used the opposite option. You then create the max size partition and exit. You can't use format here, it wont work. After that, boot again with Active@ Kill Disk, and select to write over the whole partition with the zeros method. After done, unplug from the USB and the player should tell you Format before using. Now plug it back into the usb and use the DOS prompt window in XP to format as it says in the above posts. Now it should work. It takes a little time, but I thought mine would never work again and was so happy when I unpluged it and it said No File....Yeah baby....Jammin again....