My Sansa clip+ won't turn on what so ever

Well, reformatting hasn’t changed anything.  Still won’t mount as a writable device, and I only ever get a “Sandisk” and ‘flower’ occasionally–but it never goes any further.   Not sure what else to try. 

@wilberfan wrote:

As the Designated Geek, a friend handed me her Clip+ yesterday (she knows I have one, too), and said “Fix it, please?”

 

It wont’ boot. 

 

I’ve tried several different combinations of holding down the power button, plugging it in to a linux machine, an OS X machine, etc.   I’ve only ever gotten it to display the ‘flower’ startup logo (that’s what I call it), but it won’t go any farther than that.

 

The OS X machine says it’s a “4.2MB UNDEF Storage Media”.

 

The device has got to be several years old; she doesn’t have much hope for it.   Still, I’d be a big o’l hero if I could get it working again…!  

 

[edit]  Any chance reformatting it would do me any good?  The OS X Disk Utility shows it as format-able…