Sansa E280 v1 part-working

[Thrashbarg]

Hello,

I've been happily using Rockbox on my Sansa for many years.  Recently ran the updater (Rockbox Utility 1.3.1), and now it is behaving rather strangely.

What it WILL do:

• Boot into original firmware
• Boot into Rockbox
• Play music files searched for from the 'Files' icon in Rockbox

...so it is not bricked, thus I don't think I should use the Unbrick tool.

What it WON'T do:

• Build database in Rockbox (tries to initialise, but hangs at some point
• Play any tracks in OF
• Connect to computer (Win XP) - computer shows drives E: and F:, but both report 0 bytes
• The autodetect function in Rockbox Utility detects 'Sansa e280v1 series', but reports 'Could not detect a mountpoint. Select your mountpoint manually.'

I've had the back off to ensure that the flash chips are seated properly.

Any help gratefully received!  I'm not skilled technically though 

Many thanks in anticipation,

Gavin.

[[Saint]]

It rather sounds as though you are the proud owner of a corrupt file-system.


[Saint]

[Thrashbarg]

Hello [Saint],

Very many thanks for your reply 

I've tried to run chkdsk with the Sansa attached in both OF and Rockbox mode.  In both instances, the result is:

chkdsk e:
Cannot open volume for direct access.

Is it now time to say goodbye to my e280, or is there still hope?  I've already bought an 8GB Clip+ & 32GB SDHC to replace it, but I have the docking station for my old one which is rather handy.

Have searched the forum.  Similar questions don't seem to have a resolution, so I guess it will be 'goodbye'

Cheers!

Gavin.

[Thrashbarg]

Yay! She lives! 

For non-technical people such as myself, I did need to follow the unbrick instructions (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200Unbrick).

Specifically, it seems to have been creating the sansa.fmt file in the recovery partition that did the job.  Hooray!