Sansa e200R (Rhapsody)

[saratoga]

That often means the memory chip came loose.  You can probably open it up and then push it back into the slot.

[deucesup22]

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@saratoga wrote:

That often means the memory chip came loose.  You can probably open it up and then push it back into the slot.

THat's a possibility since I do remember a small drop receeding the occurrence.  It comes up in recovery mode and sees only 16mb.  Loose chip? HOPE that works. 

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[saratoga]

If you have recovery mode, then the memory isn't lose. If it gets loose you lose access to recovery mode too.

[deucesup22]

Why is it recognizing just 16 mb? Where is my memory?  What is the situation here then?

[Tapeworm]

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@deucesup22 wrote:

Why is it recognizing just 16 mb?

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That's Recovery Mode. You can re-install the firmware while connected this way that may help and/or format the player (which will clear the memory) by creating a new blank file and naming it "sansa.fmt" (w/o quotes).

[deucesup22]

If I right click on the drive and try to format, it will say windows was unable to complete the format.  Actually it just registered as formatted after I tried to put that file there.  Now I have a sansa.fmt file on the disk but the drive shows as 16mb still

[deucesup22]

How do I reinstall the firmware and it seems no matter what I do it only sees 16 mb

[Tapeworm]

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@deucesup22 wrote:

If I right click on the drive and try to format, it will say windows was unable to complete the format.  Actually it just registered as formatted after I tried to put that file there.  Now I have a sansa.fmt file on the disk but the drive shows as 16mb still

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Dont ever attempt to do this in Recovery Mode!!!

You WILL brick your player!!!

Only format the way I described. If you have created a new file and named it sansa.fmt, click on "Safely Remove hardware" in your system tray, and then un-plug the player and move the HOLD switch off.. it will then format itself.

This post may be of help to you.

[deucesup22]

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@Tapeworm wrote:

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@deucesup22 wrote:

If I right click on the drive and try to format, it will say windows was unable to complete the format.  Actually it just registered as formatted after I tried to put that file there.  Now I have a sansa.fmt file on the disk but the drive shows as 16mb still

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Dont ever attempt to do this in Recovery Mode!!!

You WILL brick your player!!!

Only format the way I described. If you have created a new file and named it sansa.fmt, click on "Safely Remove hardware" in your system tray, and then un-plug the player and move the HOLD switch off.. it will then format itself.

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Create the file how?  If I want to put a file on the drive it wants to format it 1st.  No matter what , it recognizes it as a 16 mb drive only.  If I eject and unplug it goes into the endless startup loop.

[Tapeworm]

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@deucesup22 wrote:

Create the file how?  If I want to put a file on the drive it wants to format it 1st.  No matter what , it recognizes it as a 16 mb drive only.  If I eject and unplug it goes into the endless startup loop.

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In Windows Explorer . . . File > New Folder (or file, it really doesn't matter). this will insert a new blank folder into the 16mb partition. Right-click on it and select Rename. Type in sansa.fmt.