sansa e280: deleted main partition, how do I mount to recreate new partition?

[kensuguro]

I may have bricked my sansa 280.  I was trying to install kubuntu on it, and in the process, deleted the first partition (the bootloader partition), thinking that all important software was already flashed onto some sort of internal flash rom.. Anyway, the moment I deleted the partition, the sansa stopped responding.  I reboot the sansa, and it showed "rockbox bootloader, partition not found"  or something to that effect.

So I was thinking I'd just create a new partition and try doing a linux install (making the sansa just a linux drive, for now) but the problem is that the rockbox bootloader immediately shuts down, before sansa is mounted.  As a result, I have no access to sansa.

Is there anyway to mount a sansa that doesn't have a primary partition?  Or is there way to mount a sansa that doesn't have an active firmware on disk?  It was a foolish move on my end, but I was always under the impression that the sansa was just a drive with software in its flash memory....  bleh.

[elborak]

Have you tried the standard Sansa unbricking steps (in the wiki)?

[Bagder]

No, that doesn't brick it (just prevents it from booting normally) and yes the unbricking procedures should work just fine for you.