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freecom 35 media player
lindauk
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I hope this is the right forum.. Hiya my daughters media player has frozen, She cant open any files either on the pc or when it is set to the t.v. it is 2 yrs old and worked perfectly up to the other day, is it now no good? or can it be fixed, sorry for sounding dumb, but we have no idea. thanks all
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Attach it to the PC via USB and try and copy the files off it to back them up (this may not work though). Make a note of the folder structure on the disk as you'll have to recreate it. The folders are colled Photo, Video, Music etc if I remember correctly.
Whether you can back up your files or not, I think you'll have to format the drive by attaching it to the PC then either copy the files back or create the root folders and start from fresh.
In summary, format the drive.
These devices can run without a hard drive and act as a media streamer, if it powers up ok without the hard drive then it might indicated the hard drive has failed.
Note that the Freecom MG35 is a rebadged MediaGate 35
Here's some sites that might help
http://www.airlinktek.com/english/atboard.php?class1=cs&class2=qna
http://mediagate.pbwiki.com/MG35Faq
Mine would no longer read the hard drive.
I removed the hard drive and plugged it into a standard IDE port on my computer, and it worked perfectly.
The Sweex itself, also works perfectly without it's hard drive, in that it can access public folders on other computers.
I've currently "retired" it, as I have a P4/XP computer where it used to be now.
If I ever need to buy another IDE drive, or suddenly find myself with one from another retired machine I'll see if it still works with a different HD.
But there are upgraded/better versions now. The codecs in the MG35 are a little out of date so HD isn't available at all, and some video files need conversion if they're to play on it.
The NDAS client (which allow you to write to it from a computer over the network) is, and always has been, very clunky anyway. Not exactly unuseable, but it doesn't work over TCP/IP and needs a different, very slow, network protocol.
But it made an excellent host for my MP3 files.