Windows Media player does not recognize storage card in Windows Mobile 5

08 Oct

Posted by Abdul Aziz as Tips, Windows Mobile

You connect your Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC/Smartphone to Activesync 4.2 with a memory/storage card inserted. Activesync will connect and synchronize successfully but Windows Media Player 10 on your desktop will not recognize the memory/storage card inserted in the device.

To resolve this issue, you can try two things:

1) Check for free space on the storage card. There should be quite some free space left for the DRM/ license details to be written to the MSMETADATA folder
2) Use the File Explorer and delete a Hidden folder called MSMETADATA and try to sync again

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3 Responses

eugene

November 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
1

hello…i dont know who you are but really i wanna thank you for not letting me reset my whole pocket pc thingy i would of been devastaded i think. so…yeah you are a genious.
JD

March 5th, 2008 at 5:34 am
2

THANK YOU!!! This solution worked for me. I was really starting to get irritated with this problem. It was a fast and easy fix.
Chris

May 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
3

Many thanks for this post. I was having a problem with my HTC Tytn no longer recognising the storage card so could no longer play tracks on my Windows Mobile Media Player. I deleted the MSMETADATA file as recommended and it worked immediately. When I rang Vodafone support, they had no idea how to fix the problem and I was left so frustrated I was thinking about either reinstalling Windows Mobile or more drastically changing my phone. Many thanks once again!