I don't get any error, it just keeps beeping, and beeping, and beeping, and beeping, for like thirty minutes which at this point, I get frustrated, as frankly thirty minutes is way too long so I reset the unit. I have the expanded 48 mb option, and am using a compact flash card for most of my braillenote work, out of habit, as well, for several months last summer I had no flash disk. As mine fried. But... it is frustrating. Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden rhod3021@xxxxxxxxxxxx "One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time" ~ Carl Sagan