My 7th gen with iFlash keeps corrupting its firmware

[Psychotronics]

Did a fresh install of Rockbox two days ago. Today, I plugged it to find it saying "no firmware found". Opened up AOMEI, the iPod's drive shows up as "unformatted". It's the second time this happens this week. Any ideas what might be happening to it?

[Frankenpod]

When you say "7th gen" do you mean one that started as 120GB (generally known as 7th gen) or one that started life as a slim 160GB model (usually informally called "7.5 gen")

[dconrad]

Have you read through section 2.1.2 of the manual? That might be of interest to you. I understand you definitely want to be using the current development version, not "stable".

There's also the possibility of a loose cable internally as well that might be worth looking into.