[Jim Frye]

From what I've been reading, the SanDisk Cruzer flash drives have the best success being used in cars. I haven't tried one of their 32 GB sticks yet. I find that trying to page through dozens and dozens of folders, looking for hundreds and hundreds of albums, covering thousands and thousands of tracks to be distracting on the system in my car. We have a half dozen 4 GB and 8 GB SanDisks in the console in a small carrying case by Case Logic. The drives are arranged by genre. This makes it easier (less of a hazard) to play tunes on the system. Every OM I've read states not to use a computer or EM hard drive on the USB port. If your selection problem has just started happening, perhaps the audio system has developed a problem with the device. Have you removed the battery cables, touched them together for 30 seconds to reset the electronics?

 

[Jim Frye]

It may be a hard drive problem. My ipod can load, but sometimes gives me an error saying data not supported or it disconnects. But anyways when i connect my hard drive to someone elses car, it only loads artists r-z. ...LAME! It there a way to reprogram an external harddrive to default setting? If so, how?

If this were mine, I'd plug the hard drive into a PC and do a hard format (not the quick one) on it. This will let a real operating system try write over the entire surface and it will over write the FAT table too, which could be the problem with yours. Actually, I'd let CCleaner do a drive wipe on it, as that program can do multiple over writes to make sure every sector is good. This will take a while, depending on the size of the drive, but it will ensure you that the drive is viable.

 

[Jim Frye]

One thing I couldn't help but notice with an OE radio system, don't provide any specifications, whatsoever. Must be some highly classified material.

I ran into the same issue with the Nav. unit in my car. It's made by Mitsubishi and used in Porsche, Honda, and Mitsus. Not a thing on line anywhere on the internals. Intellectual Property, I guess.

 

[Jim Frye]

Problem solved. Had to reformat my hard drive. It was fat32 already but i had to use a program to reformat it. Now all artist show. Whomp whomp

Good you fixed it. Still betting the FAT got corrupted and caused the problem.

 

[Jim Frye]

$80 for a 1TB external hard drive from SAMS or Costco is cheap back up. Software backs up the system automatically whenever you set it to do it. I put a second drive in the PC from a previous PC and use it to back up the OS whenever there are updates to the OS. Recovery becomes fairly easy.