After weeks of fiddling to repair my sisters sansa c240 (recover, manufacturing mode, pre boot mode et etc), i gave up and I just left it and started looking for a new player.
oh btw thanks to gevaerts for trying to help me out.
Today my sis just happened to in one desperate mode, pressed the power button and lo-behold the darn thing turned on with some reluctancy. It went into some sort of repair mode.
It was still sort of corrupt, so I thought I try the recovery mode in windows (never worked b4). The 16mb partition was recognised by windows. wow!
I then copied over the 3 firmware files from sandisk site.
The player then worked, but slower than it use to. After i played some music in it, I set thought about putting rockbox back to use the 8gb microsd card.
Rockbox utility would detect the device but when installing, it said "no sansa found" I then found about sansapatcher; that worked!
(coincidentally, about a 6-9 months when I originally installed rockbox, it had no problems installing from a-z!)
Went back to rockbox utility to install the remainder. everything went smoothly.
After a reboot the rockbox bootloder shows v5, then a next screen with ver. r19569-081223 and just stays frozen with that and the rockbox logo. nothing else!! nooooooo!!
After all the blood, sweat and tears it should know have worked.
Ive reset/reboot many times but it just stay on that screen. after a 10-15 secs it go blank (powersaving or someting) until you press a button. Leave it for a couple of minutes and it turns off.
ANY BODY PLEASE SHED SOME LIGHT ON THIS LAST EQUATION-
I have installed/uninstalled rockbox 3-4 times.
Please help