Samsung mp3 device only transfers last recorded track to the hard drive in Windows Explorer. Other tracks errored during copy.

I have a Samsung 1 GB mp3 recorder/player of recent vintage. I bring it over to
another's computer running Win XP Home on a Dell 4300 and use the USB 2.0 port
on a new PCI card (which works well for the external hard drive, as of late).
The mp3 player/recorder has 3 folders: Data (for the firmware update), Music
(for syncing with MediaMonkey or WMP 11), and Record (for radio recordings from
the mp3 player/recorder, and line-in recordings, and built-in mic recordings). I
really don't understand syncing well at all, so I'll skip that for now. But
stuff I recorded with the line-in feature to the mp3 recorder will not drag and
drop, or copy & paste from the device to the hard drive. Say I have 23 songs I
just recorded, and I only want 8 of them because the others were bad recordings;
I could pick all 23 for transfer and it starts with the 23rd song first, and
then it craps out after one song, or after several songs. Each file that gets
transferred is the last track even though the names may change as a normal
transfer would intend. The connection hangs up after half a dozen files
transfer; and they are labelled L023, L022, L021, L020, L019, L018, etc. but
they all have the same file size and when played back they are the last track,
track #23!

I could pick the 18th song for transfer, which happens to be bigger than song
#23, and the transfer will crap out in the middle. I could pick song 3 or 4
where both are smaller than #23, and copy each one individually and they will
both be the same size as #23 and sound just as #23, but it will be labelled as
track L003 or L004, instead of L023. Something is seriously fishy. Any tracks
that I can get to copy over to the hard drive are invariably the last track with
the name of the one I tried to copy over. So my Recycle Bin gets filled up with
a dozen of bad copies with all different file names but all the same size as
track #23!

I can't delete any of the recorded tracks on the device within Windows Explorer,
because the mp3 device instantly gets too busy to do anything, it starts
recharging instantly instead of paying attention! I thought maybe copying the
last track over and erasing it from the device would allow the device to focus
on a different last track, but it won't let me delete it. I did manage to rename
it, but it just copied over to outside the 3 folders within the device and I
can't move the copied file either.

I've tried to reinstall the firmware 3 times, and I'm getting nowhere.

Exactly how does it crap out? Is there an error dialog? Anything useful
in the Event Viewer? Are these DRM protected files?

Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:
> I have a Samsung 1 GB mp3 recorder/player of recent vintage. I bring it over to
> another's computer running Win XP Home on a Dell 4300 and use the USB 2.0 port
> on a new PCI card (which works well for the external hard drive, as of late).
> The mp3 player/recorder has 3 folders: Data (for the firmware update), Music
> (for syncing with MediaMonkey or WMP 11), and Record (for radio recordings from
> the mp3 player/recorder, and line-in recordings, and built-in mic recordings). I
> really don't understand syncing well at all, so I'll skip that for now. But
> stuff I recorded with the line-in feature to the mp3 recorder will not drag and
> drop, or copy & paste from the device to the hard drive. Say I have 23 songs I
> just recorded, and I only want 8 of them because the others were bad recordings;
> I could pick all 23 for transfer and it starts with the 23rd song first, and
> then it craps out after one song, or after several songs. Each file that gets
> transferred is the last track even though the names may change as a normal
> transfer would intend. The connection hangs up after half a dozen files
> transfer; and they are labelled L023, L022, L021, L020, L019, L018, etc. but
> they all have the same file size and when played back they are the last track,
> track #23!
>
> I could pick the 18th song for transfer, which happens to be bigger than song
> #23, and the transfer will crap out in the middle. I could pick song 3 or 4
> where both are smaller than #23, and copy each one individually and they will
> both be the same size as #23 and sound just as #23, but it will be labelled as
> track L003 or L004, instead of L023. Something is seriously fishy. Any tracks
> that I can get to copy over to the hard drive are invariably the last track with
> the name of the one I tried to copy over. So my Recycle Bin gets filled up with
> a dozen of bad copies with all different file names but all the same size as
> track #23!
>
> I can't delete any of the recorded tracks on the device within Windows Explorer,
> because the mp3 device instantly gets too busy to do anything, it starts
> recharging instantly instead of paying attention! I thought maybe copying the
> last track over and erasing it from the device would allow the device to focus
> on a different last track, but it won't let me delete it. I did manage to rename
> it, but it just copied over to outside the 3 folders within the device and I
> can't move the copied file either.
>
> I've tried to reinstall the firmware 3 times, and I'm getting nowhere.