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

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saratoga:
Why can't you use the machine that is hosting the virtual machine?

dexeqex:
The machine hosting the virtual machine is running XUbuntu.

Here's an update:

I think all the plugging and unplugging had some effect on the file system because I was able to get it to mount in the original firmware.  I should have checked the disk immediately, but of course I didn't.  I followed the uninstall rockbox instructions thinking I could start with a blank slate before re-installing rockbox once everything was stable again.  The firmware update appeared to proceed normally, but it got stuck on "refreshing your media" after reboot.  Plugging in, it got stuck on the flower start up logo and reboots endlessly.  Tried various ways to reset and eventually ended up with a blank screen and no way to connect it to PC.  I fear it's truly dead this time unless there's some kind of recovery mode in the OF I can use.

I tried plugging it in on a Windows 7 machine at work.  It tries to install the driver and fails with an "unable to start device" error.

Thanks for all your help!

saratoga:

--- Quote from: dexeqex on March 31, 2014, 01:15:46 PM ---The machine hosting the virtual machine is running XUbuntu.
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I would use that rather than a VM which may or may not work.


--- Quote from: dexeqex on March 31, 2014, 01:15:46 PM ---I think all the plugging and unplugging had some effect on the file system because I was able to get it to mount in the original firmware.  I should have checked the disk immediately, but of course I didn't.  I followed the uninstall rockbox instructions thinking I could start with a blank slate before re-installing rockbox once everything was stable again.

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Heh, so the first thing you did was remove the only available recovery mode.  At this point you have to try and fix the OF somehow.  Various people have posted tricks on different sansa players to try and get past the database refresh.  I'd try google and maybe the sandisk forums.  Otherwise, you're out of luck. 

dexeqex:
Yes, it was an error in judgement.  As it stands the player looks like a brick, but it does appear in fdisk as a 32 MB drive with no partition table.

I appreciate all your help

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