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Help! - MP3 player up sh1t creek
Humbug - 27/7/07 at 12:37 PM

I've got an Archos XS202s - 20GB of space, no video, etc. but sturdy, neat and does the job...

until yesterday when I got back from a business trip to find it would not start properly. I get the message "Read access error! Can't read from hard disk".

I checked the Archos site and there doesn't seem to be anything to help and no, it's not still under warranty.

Anyone any ideas of what I could try? Is there a reset button anywhere, or have I got to fork out for a new player?

Pants On Fire - 27/7/07 at 12:40 PM

If you connrct it to your PC can you read the HDD?

Humbug - 27/7/07 at 12:41 PM

forgot to say... if I connect it to the PC, the unit itself says it is connected by USB, but you can't see it on the PC

Danozeman - 27/7/07 at 12:42 PM

Google it you might find something.

Humbug - 27/7/07 at 12:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Danozeman
Google it you might find something.


Tried that before here!

wyatt - 27/7/07 at 12:43 PM

you could try and remove the internal battery and then put it back to see if that help’s I don’t think they have a reset button but I am not held responsible if it turns it into a brick

Pants On Fire - 27/7/07 at 12:44 PM

Connect it to your PC
Right click on the Gmini HDD icon & select properties
Select Tools
Run error checking program
Check box auto fix errors

This may take a while, be patient and you may have to restart windows.

Edit oops what OS is your PC? If XP or 2000 follow the below....

Connect to PC
Open a DOS prompt
At the prompt chkdsk e: /f Use e or whatever your device drive name is

Be patient!!

[Edited on 27/7/07 by Pants On Fire]

Humbug - 27/7/07 at 01:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Pants On Fire
Connect it to your PC
Right click on the Gmini HDD icon & select properties
Select Tools
Run error checking program
Check box auto fix errors

This may take a while, be patient and you may have to restart windows.

Edit oops what OS is your PC? If XP or 2000 follow the below....

Connect to PC
Open a DOS prompt
At the prompt chkdsk e: /f Use e or whatever your device drive name is

Be patient!!

[Edited on 27/7/07 by Pants On Fire]


...but the PC doesn;trecognise the device - there is no Gmini icon or disk letter to get access to it

I've just taken the back off it and it looks like the ribbon cable connecting the hard disk the rest of it was loose, but I'm bvggered if I can get it back in the tiny slot it came out of.

McLannahan - 27/7/07 at 07:00 PM

Don't think some have a reset. Hold down the stop button for 20 secs or so. That SHOULD reset it!

Good luck!

bpgoa - 28/7/07 at 12:03 AM

if by ribbon you mean a flexible clear plastic with copper tracks, then in order to put it back in first take it all the way out... pull out the locking piece... holding the locking piece out, insert the plastic and copper cable then push the locking tab in...

hope that makes sense..