Partition wasn't found

[Flake]

Hello mates,

Unexpected stuff happened with my e280. I worked with rockbox untill now. Once I've connected it to XP to upload some music, and Windows said "USB device not recognized". Strange, but I tried another USB port - the same warning. OK, I turned on e280

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Partition not found
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What!?!?

Well, I tried to update .mi4 file (that all I remember from rockbox installation, the last time I did it 1,5 years ago). Now it much worse:

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Load main image failed
Switch to Recovery Mode

I hope it didn't lose any data? What I should do now?

[Flake]

I installed .mi4 from 1.00.12. Original FW starts - no any songs "Not enough free space for MusicDB. Please free 6MB", and I cannot access flash drive from Windows: "Please insert disk into drive..."

How to restore the data from player...

[zajacattack]

Is the player in MSC mode? If it is, are you sure you are selecting the actual Sansa and not the microSD card?

See, in MTP mode, everything is combined into one drive. In MSC, it is separated.

[Flake]

yep, it's in MSC mode, I see two drives, and both behave like if I didn't inserted SD card, both with the same name "Removable Drive"

[Flake]

is it possible to dump the data from flash drive and deal with it after then?

[zajacattack]

You could try a data recovery program to extract the data off the drive.

[Flake]

No any software was even able to determine my plugged sansa. I brought myself to perform a full formating and put sansa.fmt file into the root. Right after I successfully restored most of data I was afraid to lose, it took about 6 hours to scan sansa drive.

[zajacattack]

You should run chkdsk (or something similar) on your Sansa to make sure that the formatting wasn't a temporary fix.