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Have you tried using Scandisk on Windows on the Neuros?

If not, do the following:
1.  Go to Start > Run... > type in cmd and hit Enter.  At the command prompt, type in chkdsk G: /R and hit Enter, where G is the Neuros's drive letter.  Follow the prompts and wait a while while it scans and recovers bad sectors (that's what the /R switch does).  You may have to format the unit afterward.

quote:Originally posted by toygod(at)misaligned.net

this doesnt seem to have fixed my problem. i tried to charge it for hours but to no avail. Can you buy just the small battery backpack with the belt clip somewhere?

You'll have to look on eBay or somewhere else.  The Neuros DAPs are discontinued so you won't be able to find spare backpacks on here, except for the full 80GB units that NT is trying to clear out.  You can try www.americantechpushers.com , which is a reseller for Neuros and whose owner (I think he's the owner) Keith is on these forums.

That happens to mine (Neuros HD grey unit) when the battery is too low and it's plugged in.  The Neuros will try to spin the hard drive, but the "low battery"  warning will tell the player to shut off.  I usually just let it do that for a little while and it will eventually be fine.  I don't know if the Neuros I units will charge if the backpack's not connected, but the Neuros II units do.

I'm not sure why it isn't immediately running off DC power.  Maybe it has to do a check or something.

Hmmm...I get occansional skips in mine when listening to it for a while.  I assume this has to do with buffering as well.  It doesn't happen too often so I can't tell if it skips at regular intervals or not.

Mine's done this a month or so after I got it back from support in July.  It's not something that's huge so I didn't send it back for the 3rd time (my warranty is over now anyway).  I have a Neuros HD 20GB (the old gray one).