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Sansa Clip Zip: Stuck on Boot screen, OF stuck on refreshing

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dexeqex:
Hi Everyone,

I've been using Rockbox with my Sansa Clip zip for a few months now.  Not having to look at the Clip Zip's godawful UI has been excellent.  Now I'm afraid I've gone and screwed up my player.  Here's what happened:

1. I had Rockbox to return to previous screen upon restart
2. When exploring the main menu I entered "Playlist Catalog"
3. This crashed my player
4. Upon reboot rockbox tried to return to "playlist catalog" causing a crash again
5. No problem, I'll just boot into the OF and edit the config file
6. Did that, changing the "start in screen" option from "previous" to "menu"
7. Tried to restart rockbox but it stayed forever in the screen with "Boot 4.0" at the bottom
8. Tried to restart into OF but it hangs forever on updating database
9. No luck holding any of the buttons while plugging in USB, the player is never recognized by the PC

So now I'm stuck with a player that really can't do anything at all.  Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

saratoga:
Sounds like the file system is corrupt.  The bootloader has a failsafe USB mode that shouldn't care about that.  Turn off the player, hold down the select button, then plug in USB.  It should then mount in Windows (the player itself will have a black screen).  Check the disk for errors, fix any that appear.  Probably then everything will work.

dexeqex:
The player behaves as expected and a removable disk appears in Windows.  However, under properties it's listed as 0 bytes.  Trying to run chkdsk yields the error "Cannot open volume for direct access."  I should also say this is on a Windows Virtual Machine that doesn't have Clip Zip drivers on it.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

saratoga:
Well first I would use a regular PC instead of a virtual machine. 

dexeqex:
Thanks.  I don't have access to one today.  I'll try tomorrow at work and report back.

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