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Iriver H10 (UMS, Japan) - OF no longer available, device no longer functions

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AndyO:
All these things I have tried previously, though I am still thankful for your advice.
My suspicion is that the RockBox Utility (automatic installer) may have corrupted some memory that cannot be accessed ordinarily - the installation process finished, but by no means was it installed properly. The .rockbock folder contained no information, and there was no additional H10.mi4 file or renamed OF file. This is when my problems began. I did a manual install which got RockBox firmware operational, but the dual boot did not work. Even after reformatting and reinstalling from Iriver plus, RockBox still tried to load: EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T THERE ON THE DISK; spooky eh?
I'll try reformatting again, but am not hopeful.

Whether this would have occurred had I performed only a manual install cannot be answered, but in light of this experience, it may be safer at the moment to go the tried and true manual install. The irony is: I thought, don't try the manual install, you're most likely to stuff it up!
As for rom (possibly reprogrammable), there must be something in the H10 to make it boot up; or possibly harddrive space that is not accessable.
Terribly sorry for all the writing, better to be thorough than vague.
Thanks for you reply

AlexP:
As I understand it, rbutil for the H10 just copies the files, nothing else.

I don't understand what has happened, but am not sure how it could be rbutil.  Perhaps on the the rbutil devs can confirm or otherwise what I say.

Llorean:
RBUtil does just copy the files, exactly like the manual install. And it just deletes and renames, exactly like the manual uninstall. All this hypothesizing about it corrupting a normally inaccessible part of the disk or a writable ROM is silly: It doesn't access one.

Chronon:
It sounds to me like the user does not have a copy of the original firmware at present.  Is it possible that Iriver Plus is loading another copy of the Rockbox bootloader instead of a fresh copy of the Iriver firmware?  (I have no familiarity with Iriver Plus.)

karashata:
It's very unlikely that iriver Plus would be loading another copy of the Rockbox bootloader to the device.  It accesses iriver's servers and grabs the appropriate files for the device it's upgrading, it doesn't go anywhere near Rockbox at all.

What I'd recommend is to visit the iriveramerica support page for the H10 5/6GB and download the MTP firmware updater, then copy any files (like music and such) you need to save off your H10, then format the device (make sure the format uses the device defaults), connect the device in UMS mode, then run the mtp firmware updater.  if it asks where you bought your H10, answer appropriately, and it will proceed with the firmware update procedure.  Hopefully that fixes things with the OF not seeming to be present, then you can proceed to install rockbox again and put your music and whatever else back onto the device.

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