My sansa's Deleting itself? My files are disappearing mysteriously...

[cameron_15]

hey guys,
       
I installed rock box on my sansa e280 about a week ago and everything was going fine and it was awesome! however, I plugged it in to my computer to charge it up and when i unplugged it and went to use it on the plane on the way home half my songs were missing. I plugged it in to find out where they had gone and found no music files in the MUSIC folder. i pressed back on windows explorer to go back to the directory folder and there was nothing.

I right clicked on the sansa and clicked properties. It says it had 0 bytes free space and 0 bytes used space with a total of o bytes available.

i thought that was strange  because i had just seen all the folders and stuff there...

If it means anything I was searching the player in explorer to find the MUSIC folder as it is hidden by the sansa. I found it, there was no music, then i pressed back and there was nothing.

anyone got any ideas. Should I Reformat the sansa and reinstall rockbox and put my music back on?

cheers

Edit, i just safely removed my sansa and it still says writing on the screen but the player doesn't appear on windows explorer.

[saratoga]

Run scandisk to check the flash drive for errors.

[cameron_15]

Checked for errors, It thinks there is nothing to check for errors.

I unplugged the sansa and it still had some songs on it, all the songs on the card appear fine. It plays what there and when i look at the info it says there is roughly 240MB free which is right but I can't see all the songs. When i try to load the database on rockbox it gets to 487 and then stops and doesn't do anything.

[AlexP]

Checked for errors, It thinks there is nothing to check for errors.

What does this mean?

[cameron_15]

Checked for errors, It thinks there is nothing to check for errors.

What does this mean?

this means that it does nothing. It just flashes and then the bar goes away.

It's weird,  Rock box can see some folders on it but windows can not.

I think I'll have to un-install rockbox then format the player from recovery mode. put the music back on and then re-install rockbox.

[AlexP]

What does nothing?  What just flashes?  What bar just goes away?


We cannot see your screen, nor guess what you are doing.  If you want help, you need to actually explain and describe to us what you are doing and what is happening.

[cameron_15]

well i right click on my sansa from my computer. click properties, then click on tools, then click check now from error checking, i then click on any combination of the two boxes and click start. then the "check disk ......." box removes. it's the error checking box.

When i click on the sansa (which has lost it's title and is now just Removable disk...) there is nothing there but when i browse files in rock box it sees folders and has some songs stored on the player in the database.

[AlexP]

Try running chkdsk from a command prompt, it should give you useful output.

Open a command prompt, then type

chkdsk /f x:

changing x: for the drive letter of your DAP.

[cameron_15]

just to let everyone know what happened. i uninstalled rockbox (probably didn't have to) then re-formatted the sansa, put it in recovery mode then installed the sansa firmware. i then put my music back on and re-installed rockbox.

all is sweet once again. thanks for your help.