I have an mp10 mp3 player. Windows used to treat it like my usb flash drive thing, but now it shows up in my computer as a 'portable mp3 player' instead of a generic usb device.

But I don't care about that. The problem is that I can no longer get to the lowest directory where I dumped a bunch of my albums. When I'm scrolling around my files on the player I have a all my music and a folder called MPTMEDIA in one directory, but when I open it up in explorer I go straight to the MPTMEDIA folder (it goes MO100 portable music player/Music player/whatever I have in the MPTMEDIA folder). Is there any way to get to my tunes in the bottom directory?

Does the player come with drivers or is it "plug n play"?

If it does, check somewhere in the drivers for an option about enabling it as a hard disk, or that general idea. I know thats how it works with ipods, but it could be different.


Otherwise maybe finding it in device manager and changing it from a mp3 player to a removeable drive might work.

Have you tried traversing the directory tree in the DOS prompt? When you say, "open it in explorer," are you double-clicking it in My Computer, or right-clicking and selecting "Explore"?

Both of those clicks do the same thing. How would I go about using the command prompt to access my files? My mp3 player doesn't have like a e:/ drive letter. And it was just plug and play.

what is the specific model of your player... only way we can really help you is if we know the specific brand and model

Well, I'm able to also copy the files to my C: drive by just holding control and click-and-dragging the drive from My Computer to the destination folder. Does that get you anything?

No, that just makes a shortcut.

Plug, open device manager, uninstall the drivers.

Unplug and replug and hopefully it will use generic drivers which should allow you full drive access... that's my theory anyway.

If nothing else, perhaps try mounting is under Knoppix to get the files off.

ok best i can do without knowing the specific model...

you say the player showed up as a flash drive before and now only shows up as a media player

what happened is somehow the usb mode got switched from MSC to MTP

look in the on player settings for the option to change the usb mode and change it to MSC