formatted, still freezing on 'refreshing media' screen

[tw33k3r]

I've been trying to get this to work for days!
Three days ago I dumped a whole bunch of stuff on my 8 gig clip and the 8 gig card in it, and it gave me the error message about needing to free up space and wouldn't turn on.
When I got in from work (two long bus rides with no music, grumble grumble) I plugged it into my computer and... Uh, the files on the clip (not the card) were missing. Completely.
So I reformatted through windows explorer, begrudgingly, and took out the card.
Now it won't boot at all, it's stuck on the 'refreshing media' screen even though it's totally empty.

I tried rockbox, the updater from the website, the drag and drop updater, but i'm still having the problem. I can't use it at all.

What do I do?

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