Corrupted Clip Zip installation & whole drive

[dancedar]

Has anyone experienced an RB  installation completely destroying an internal drive of a Clip Zip?
It was working fine yesterday and I plugged in using the same cable to the same port as always and the whole internal drive is corrupt. I've 1900 0-byte files named 'µ', tons of folders like 'µOCKBO~2' and 'µELCOM~1', inside which are more folders like '.¡Ý3û¢:=.¥_╩', with equally-silly filenames with creation dates ranging from 1981 to 2095, like 'Ë£¾£¾£Ø.Ñ4' which is 8.5gb...clearly it's not as there's tons of similarly-sized files.

I assume I can't recover any of the 3gb of mp3/mp4s/audible files I had on it and am best to just wipe and reinstall RB. Would there be a log of any use for this?

[dancedar]

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[__builtin]

I assume I can't recover any of the 3gb of mp3/mp4s/audible files I had on it and am best to just wipe and reinstall RB. Would there be a log of any use for this?

You've probably lost everything... Including any logs that might have been of use , though Rockbox doesn't generate any, AFAIK.

Maybe you forgot to eject before unplugging?
Good luck! 

[dancedar]

Thanks. I didn't not-eject, it happened on connect. Worst thing is, I have to use that god-awful Audible software again which looks like it's stuck in 1998!

[__builtin]

Thanks. I didn't not-eject, it happened on connect. Worst thing is, I have to use that god-awful Audible software again which looks like it's stuck in 1998!

Well... Good luck and have fun

[saratoga]

 I would check that disk for errors.  It may be correctable. 

The install just copies the .rockbox folder and a patched firmware update image (using the Sandisk firmware), so I don't see how it would screw up the file system.  Or if it did, it would likely be due to some kind of problem with windows or your usb controller.

If after the install you had this problem though, I wouldn't be too surprised.  The rockbox USB mode on the sandisk players has issues with some USB hosts.  Generally it works well, but some devices can trigger nasty bugs in it.