SOLVED: Sansa e260v1 no longer boots completely

[DaveSeidel]

I've had this unit for a over a year now (it was a refurb), generally works very well.  I've been running Rockbox 3.6 on it since it was released.  A couple of days ago (after having used it earlier in the day, I started it up, but it did not proceed beyond the screen with the Rockbox logo and version display (3.6).

I can shut it down if I hold down the "menu" button long enough, but in numerous restart attempts it does not proceed past the Rockbox version.  I can reboot with the original boot loader.  I have reinstalled Rockbox (including the bootloader), no change.

Any ideas?

Later...

I finally looked inside the .rockbox directory and saw that there were junk entries -- clearly the filesystem had become damaged.  I renamed .rockbox to .junk, deleted as much of the contents as I could, ran chkdsk, reinstalled Rockbox, and now it is working again.  I still have one file left in .junk with a filename that Windows can't deal with (has high-bit characters in it), but I can just ignore that.

[mc2739]

I still have one file left in .junk with a filename that Windows can't deal with (has high-bit characters in it), but I can just ignore that.

Have you tried deleting that file/directory from within Rockbox?

[DaveSeidel]

I still have one file left in .junk with a filename that Windows can't deal with (has high-bit characters in it), but I can just ignore that.

Have you tried deleting that file/directory from within Rockbox?

Yes, that worked, thanks.