Sansa E200 Bricked by Recovery Mode

[fLo]

Oh,, I use windows not linux...

[fLo]

Is there any way to switch from windows to linux, Does it only work for linux?

[chrisjs169]

Well, since you probably don't want to partition your drive and install Linux, you can either:
a) Get a ~700 MB live cd, burn it to a disk, and restart your computer
b) Look here/here for information on getting e200tool to work on Windows

[fLo]

K i tried toe e200tool,, this is what happened:

Press ENTER to begin recovery of the file on drive C:

Cannot lock the drive.The volume is still in use

C:\e200tool>

Help...? what happened?

[saratoga]

Is there any way to switch from windows to linux, Does it only work for linux?

As was said a couple posts above yours:

Do note that very few poeple manage to use e200tool on windows (including skilled Rockbox dudes), so I would really suggest you try e200tool on Linux instead, and then even possibly with the time-out extension previously mentioned by jdgordon.

So it sounds like you should not use it on Windows.  But more importantly, I think you should take a couple minutes to read this thread and get an idea what you need to do before you jump into this.  If you don't take care, you'll destroy whats left of your player.

[fLo]

i have read it it a couple of times and dont understand some of this,, im not very good with computers..

[chrisjs169]

Press ENTER to begin recovery of the file on drive C:

I haven't tried e200tool yet, since I haven't dropped random files in the recovery partition, but doesn't that say it's recovering 'the' file on drive C:, your windows drive?

[fLo]

yes,, after i press enter it says:

Cannot lock the drive.The volume is still in use

[chrisjs169]

Like I said, I'm not familiar with e200tool, but it sounds like it's trying to use your hard drive, C:\, vs your Sansa.  But like I said, I'm not entirely sure...

[saratoga]

i have read it it a couple of times and dont understand some of this,, im not very good with computers..

Nows a good time to learn.

Also, its helpful that when you ask people to tell you what an error message means, you also post what you did.  In this case, you should probably copy and paste the log from running that command.

[fLo]

Press ENTER to begin recovery of the file on drive C:

Cannot lock the drive.The volume is still in use

C:\e200tool>

[saratoga]

Press ENTER to begin recovery of the file on drive C:

Cannot lock the drive.The volume is still in use

C:\e200tool>

Obviously I meant the complete log.  You already posted that above.  Its not too useful since we have no idea what you actually did.

[fLo]

http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/385712_WTF.bmp.html

[saratoga]

http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/385712_WTF.bmp.html

The recover command is a built into Windows, and operates on hard disks.  Its not related to the e200tool, which is why you were getting an error message no one had ever heard of.

You probably wanted to type:

e200tool (insert_your_options_here)

[fLo]

I dont really understand what you're saying, sorry english isnt my native language..