The sansa are usually stuck into the case with some sticky foam around the screen area I imagine the clipzip is the same
If you can get it into "recovery" mode
(I use that term lightly as there is really no recovery about it it just makes
it so you can access the raw drive partition through USB)We can probably write firmware to the drive
First what you need.. a PC (really LINUX is the way to go here but I have a follow up for windows users)
The files here:
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/95g23cbrzz72w/ClipZip(Ignore the .sansa file in the root in the above link this is for accessing the raw drive on a device already running rockbox)
On Linuxgrab the file clipzip4GB_RECOVERY_image32.bin and follow the procedure in the unbrick instructions
!!ONLY FOR LINUX USERS!! (with this method the size of the player doesn't matter)
On Windows!!THE SIZE OF THE PLAYER ABSOLUTELY MATTERS!!I only have a 4GB image for you if your player is not 4GB do NOT attempt this
grab the file SansaClipZip 4G_RECOVERY.imgc.7z unzip it with 7Zip
You need to download and run this to use this image
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/HDDRawCopy1.10Portable.exeand finally you will connect the player
DO NOT FORMAT IT WHEN WINDOWS ASKS!and run HDDRawCopy1.10Portable.exe and write the whole image to your device