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dma44:
Hello,
I accidentally windows 10 formatted  (Quick format) my Sansa e280 v1 mp3 player that had rockbox on it. (I thought I was formatting the external microSD card).   Now it turns on to black screen and blue ring,  and windows is not recognizing the player (not assigning a drive letter).

I have a backup of the entire player from the root directory down on my computer, but since windows is not assigning a drive letter, I can't get at it to restore from backup.

Is there any way to get windows 10 to recognize the player?
Is there anything I can try?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions...

Thanks for considering.

saratoga:
I thought if you formatted the disk you could still boot into the Sandisk firmware.  Does that fail too?  If so (and only if so), you can try the recovery mode instructions here:

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200Unbrick

dma44:
I cannot boot into Sandisk firmware (hold left arrow button as power on).

I cannot seem to get into Recovery Mode either from the instructions:
    Power off
    Turn ON lock/hold
    Hold down record            (on left edge of e280 player)
    Hit Power/Menu Button   

I had done a QUICK FORMAT  (not a hard format) from windows, so all the original files should still be present on the player itself (just the file table should have changed).

When I turn it on it just goes to the black screen, blue ring.

When I plug it into computer I hear the windows audio that I always got before, but windows does not assign a drive letter, so I can't access the device. 

I can't imagine how even "undelete" utilities (like EaseUS) could get at it if there's no drive letter assignment from windows.

Wondered if you had any other suggestions to try...

saratoga:

--- Quote from: dma44 on November 29, 2017, 11:15:17 AM ---I cannot seem to get into Recovery Mode either from the instructions:
    Power off
    Turn ON lock/hold
    Hold down record            (on left edge of e280 player)
    Hit Power/Menu Button   

--- End quote ---

What happens when you try?


--- Quote from: dma44 on November 29, 2017, 11:15:17 AM ---When I plug it into computer I hear the windows audio that I always got before, but windows does not assign a drive letter, so I can't access the device. 

--- End quote ---

If the device isn't booting, then the storage isn't physically even powered on.  You need to get firmware to load before you can do things like that.

dma44:
When I try to enter Recovery mode the device powers up to black screen and blue ring.  Then no buttons have any effect.  Cannot even power off.  I have to remove battery to shut it down.

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