Comments on: Fixing RCA Lyra’s “File System Corrupted” error

By: sealmanguy@yahoo.com

sealmanguy@yahoo.com — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:28:23 +0000

my rca lyra also has the system file is corrupt ive tried whatyou said to do but it didnt work thanks fr trying

By: Vincent R. Singer

Vincent R. Singer — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:35:43 +0000

Tried in the past to upgrade my RD2762A (4Gb Microdrive) to 8Gb 133X CF card, with no success. Will try procedure outlined above. However – after 3 years my Li-Po battery was starting to lose capacity, was down to 40 minutes on a full charge. Today, went to local “Batteries +” type store, bought replacement “Video Game” battery ($29.99, $32.50 w/tax), soldered it in, seems to be charging at this time. We’ll see how charge holds out.

Battery used is Dantona Industries GBASP-4LIP (UPC=28286-57295)- slightly smaller, with wires and 2-pin connector. Cut connector off replacement battery, cut wire on existing battery as close as possible to where they connected to old battery. Stripped wire, soldered together – red wire to red wire, black wire to black wire. Re-assembled unit, plugged in to charge. No smoke, heat, or explosion yet. Will try another attempt at 8Gb upgrade as soon as I get an opportunity.

My player has worked fine from day one, when I bought it for about $80.00 at K-mart at a Black Friday sale. Hitachi 4Gb MD works way better than sloooow 5Gb Seagate knock-off in a Rave mp3 player I scrapped. Guess I must have gotten lucky.

I recently bought a number of different mp3 players to give as Christmas gifts. None feel as substantial as this RCA that I’ve had for 3 years now. However – none of my recent purchases cost over $25.00, and almost all have very nice color displays.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:17:35 +0000

Ok I took mine apart…Got to the memory card looking think took it out then plugged it back in… I held the menu button and the joystick down and plugged it up…Then I went and open the folders on my computer and deleted everything…Its working fine at the momen…Knock on wood.

By: un needed

un needed — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:44:16 +0000

mine says file system i pushed menu but nothing and i am trying to record a song and i miss my metallica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:12:46 +0000

First of all, many thanks to Jason for a great help page on the Lyra RD2762. I have two of these and one of them just died for the third time.

The hard drives almost seem to have an expiration date built into them. The last time it happened, I bought two Hitachi 4 GB drives and (gently) put one aside for future use. When the first replacement drive failed last week, I installed the second one, which died a day later.

Instead of buying yet another over-priced Hitachi CF drive, I took a chance and bought a CF to SD adapter off eBay along with a 4 GB Micro SD card and a SD adapter.

Although it did not work, giving the dreaded ‘File System Corrupted’ error; I took a chance and put a standard 8 GB SD card I had into the adapter and tried loading the 3.60 update software into the player.

And it worked! WOO-HOO!!!

Furthermore, my old 4 GB RD2762 player now says it has 8GB of storage and the battery lasts a lot longer than it did with the old Hitachi Drive. I suspect that either the micro SD card was too slow or it didn’t work because I had to use two adapters (CF to SD and SD to Micro SD).

I’m now ordering a second CF to SD adapter for my other RD2762 player (before it dies as well) and I’m tempted to buy a 16 or 32 GB SD card just to see how large a drive I can get this player to use.

Thanks again, Jason!

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:36:08 +0000

Thanks much my man, you just rescued my 6 year old mp3 player from the clutches of hell (my hammer). i know this thing still has a wee bit of life it yet. Peace and love,

Mitch

By: Brock

Brock — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:18:31 +0000

You guys rock! After trying everything to get this piece of crap to work, I bit the bullet and removed the back, pulled out the battery and the wiggled the cable to the hard drive. WOW the thing turned right on.
Thanks so much for the help!!!!!!

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:36:36 +0000

Thanks a ton man, really helpful, my wife was so happy when I got hers working again, cheers. Keith

By: JD

JD — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:00:51 +0000

I was just having the same problem with the “system corrupted” thing on an RCA RD2762A, but I was able to fix it. I was due to a loose cable between the hard drive and the motherboard. This may not fix all situations, but if you’ve tried reformatting and nothing is working, here’s an option for you. You can open the case and check the hard drive for loose wiring, and here’s a step by step process.
1) There is a silver label on the back near the bottom which has a UPC code on it. Peel back the label and you will see a single small screw.
2) unscrew the screw and then remove the back plate by sliding it sideways.
3) pull the battery out a little bit to allow more space to see the hard drive connection, but do not remove the wiring that connects it to the unit.
4) The hard drive has a wide gold-colored strip that connects it to the main unit. There is a bridge that covers the connection between the gold strip and the actual motherboard (the long green thing that the battery and hard drive are sitting on top of). If you slide the hard drive out of place and remove the gold strip out from under the bridge, you can make sure there is nothing actually fried on the strip. Then, you can plug the strip back into the bridge, making sure that it secures totally and plugs all the way in.
5) Once this is complete, just place the hard drive and battery back in place, put the back cover back on, screw it in, and then find out if that’s fixed anything.

Good luck, and I hope this helps some of you.

By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:40:00 +0000

Yes I have tried all of your suggestions none worked for me and I even called the company and they were no help. This is f$@*ing RETARDED. I will be contacting that lawyer and get my money back and then some.