Trouble installing Rockbox/bootloader

[evlguy]

Hi, so for the past 2 hours(probably longer) I've been trying to install Rockbox onto my Sansa e280 8gb. It is not version 2, and it was refurbished. I tried updating the firmware on it so that I could get it to use MSC/UMS. The firmware says it is 01.03.02A as of now. Using the Rockbox Utility allows me to install Rockbox itself, but the sansapatcher.exe won't read my player and using the Rockbox Utility to do a full install doesn't work either. Both just say that no sansa is found and I just don't understand how that is possible when it was able to directly install Rockbox just fine when I gave it a path (H:\) to install into. I'm sorry if I seem or get irritated, I'm just extremely frustrated because I feel like I've done everything correctly, but it just won't let me use Rockbox or something. So if anyone out there knows what the problem is or might be I'd really appreciate the help, or if I'm just completely out of luck I suppose I'll have to give up.

[bluebrother]

Do you have admin permissions? Those are required for bootloader installation. Please go to the About / System Info dialog and post the output of that window.

[evlguy]

Yes, I'm on a laptop and I'm the only one that uses it, so I have the only account and it is an administrator account so that shouldn't be a problem.

[bluebrother]

Quoting one self is fun:

Please go to the About / System Info dialog and post the output of that window.

[AutobahnSHO]

Quoting one self is fun:

Or a sign of instability issues.... 

[evlguy]

I'm sorry, guess I missed that part because I was responding during classes.  Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what the About/System Info dialog is, unless you mean what the sansapatcher.exe says when the window opens up.

[bluebrother]

You were talking about Rockbox Utility earlier. This has a menu. That menu has an entry "About". Below this entry you'll find another entry "System Info".

Is it that hard?

[evlguy]

No, it wasn't. Sorry for not having seen it. 

OS
Windows version 5.1, build 2600 (Service Pack 2)

Username:
3v1

Permissions:
Admin

Attached USB devices:
VID: 0483 PID: 2016, Biometric Coprocessor
VID: 0781 PID: 74b1, Sansa View

That's what it says

[bluebrother]

Well, it's obvious: you have a sansa view. This is not supported by Rockbox. Only the players listed on the front page are supported, and the Sansa View is none of them.

But thanks for finding the USB ID of the View in this process ;-)

[evlguy]

Wow, damn, now I feel retarded. Ugh... friend told me this was the e280 and I was wondering why it kinda looked different. *sigh* Anyway, thanks for the help. Wouldn't happen to know if there are any other apps our there I can use with the view for games and such would you?

[AutobahnSHO]

None for the view so far.

This place might come in handy for other stuff though:

http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/