Hard drive too full to boot into OF

[Penstro]

Hi everyone. I'm not sure if I'm posting this is the right discussion, but I have a problem.

I have a Sansa Sandisk e280 V2.

I accidentally filled the hard drive to very full. When i try to boot into the original firmware, it says "Not enough space for music DB. Please empty 90 MB." problem is, it's set to MSC, and when I plug it in, it won't let me open it unless i format the drive, which i am concerned will permanently brick it. But i can't boot up OF to change the settings to MTP. Is there anything I can do?

[Llorean]

Delete some files from within Rockbox, would be the most obvious.

[Penstro]

I didn't even know you could do this. But i tried it and erased way more more than 90 Mb. But it still says the same thing.

[NiHaoMike]

What happens if you run fsck on it from a PC?

[perfectdrug]

there was a guy who had the same problem try to read the IRC logs, or try the solution from FlynDice directly: http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20091206#07:27:04

[Penstro]

I'm not what you would call an advanced user. I looked up fsck and what I could gather it's for linux, but I'm running windows. Everything in the IRC Chat log is much too complicated for me.

I Have a new question. If i format it, will i be able to reinstall OF, and then rockbox again?

[Chronon]

In Windows you can use chkdsk to check (and fix) the file system for errors.

Flyn Dice said this:

Plug your player into the usb and wait for the Sandisk logo to appear. Now unplug the player before the database refresh starts. Should put you into the menu in the OF and you can format from there.

Hopefully that's not too compicated.

[Penstro]

I'd forgotten to mention I'd tried to plugin-out quickly. did not work.

Tried running chkdsk on it. It says the system is RAW, and cant run on RAW drives.

[Chronon]

You say it didn't work.  What happened instead of the expected behavior? 

It could be that the FAT is corrupted (so the partition is being seen as RAW).  It seems that formatting would help, but you need a way to update the firmware after doing so.  I guess you should take a look at the recovery mode.

There is a recovery mode that allows USB access for the e200 v2, even if the device can't be booted from internal memory.  http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200v2#Recovery_Mode_on_the_E200v2

Have a read of that and hopefully someone can confirm whether or not this is the best course of action for you.

[funman]

If i format it, will i be able to reinstall OF, and then rockbox again?

Yes sure, no problem.

You will only need to reinstall the rockbox build, because the OF and the rockbox bootloader will still be there.

[Penstro]

Thanks Funman.

I formatted My sandisk. I didn't even have to reinstall Rockbox like you said.

However.........

When plugging it back into my computer, its labled as a Sandisk e230 insted of e280, and there seem to only be about 500 mb on it

Anything we can do about this?

Edit: Another thing. in Rockbox when i went to the database, it started building it. But it didn't stop... and it's at about 500,000 files...and rising. There is no way there is 500k files on 8gb (or 500mb now)