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The basics on Windows hard drive partitioning and why you should consider separate Windows partitions.

There thousands of references on this topic and many go into great detail. I wrote this article with the basics in mind so that you might go away with answers and new ideas rather than more questions you had to start with. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Media Player cannot see files on your Sansa mp3 player.

You connect your Sansa mp3 player to your computer, start your music sync software, but the music you know to be on the player cannot be seen by your sync software or your computer via drives/devices in My Computer.

In this example Windows XP is the OS, Windows Media Player is the synchronizing medium, using the Sansa m240. The fix should work for other Sansa versions and some other players. This problem probably would not have happened using Linux as one would have unmounted the device before disconnecting it. Which leads us to what I believe may cause this problem, at least sometimes. Read the rest of this entry »