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Sansa Clip+ 2GB, ROCKBOX serious issue, player semi-bricked?

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toehser:
I'm confused about where we are - the not enough space message is from the original firmware?

Did you get it mounted as a drive over USB?

Where do we stand on RB and OF boot process?

I would definitely start by trying to get it mounted as a drive, before messing with booting either RB or OF.

From the messages, it looks as though maybe the USB drive issue is with your _windows_ setup...

From which point, various things can be tried, starting by looking at what shows up in the lower-level disks view.

Personally, I'm a Linux user... and when I do use Windows, it is usually XP... on XP, there is "start"=>"settings"=>"control panel"=>"administrative tools"=>"Computer Management"=>"storage"=>"Disk Management" to get to the starting point of what I'm talking about.  What do you see there?  (in whatever equivalent Win-7 has...) when you are going into USB mode?

You _should_ see that there is a disk, with a FAT filesystem, but not a partition table, and some options for the filesystem, including mounting it / operating on it.

Jason Arthur Taylor:

--- Quote from: wsekund5 on January 26, 2014, 03:43:55 AM ---saratoga,

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me  :-\ I turn on the player with either a LEFT button or HOME button held (while it's being plugged in). As soon as "SANSA" appears on the screen, I disconnect it. Then the same message shows up: "Not enough space for music DB. Please free 90 MB". Any other way to force Clip+ to boot to its original firmware or this was the last resort solution?

How come the file system became corrupted so badly "just like that"?

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Because if you ever you use the original firmware, it's going to create a bunch of files and create a database of every mp3 files it finds on the drive.  Basically it does a ton of writing to the internal flash drive.  If it has a bad FAT, it will completely mess up the whole system at that point.  This is why I think the read-only case of the rockbox firmware startup should be improved to go to plug usb cable and actually work properly to do that.  (It doesn't for me.)

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