8gb clip v2 partial flash death?

[sleepypedro]

I've got a 8gb clip v2 that is suddenly only coming up as having 1.8gb total storage. I've formatted the device several times, run chkdsk within windows, examined the volume from within Disk Management... and nowhere does it show as anything other than a 1.8gb volume.

Apart from losing 6 gb of capacity, the volume that remains is still writeable, the device boots just fine, etc.

I've had flash devices die on me before, but never partially. Has anyone reported anything like this?

Sandisk support wasn't much of a help. ("... have you tried formatting the device?")

This unit was rockboxed with the latest firmware as of a couple weeks ago, but I've since flashed it back down to the stock sansa firmware in hopes of retrieving the missing space.

I just tried the sandisk recovery tool I read about elsewhere on the web, but that was not successful.

Any ideas?


EDIT: Fixed. Thank you!

[CrowdAds]

[dfkt]

Format the player with this app instead of Windows' default formatter: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/

[Liverpool]

Don't format using the FAT file system as that will make only about 2gb of space available. Use FAT32

[dfkt]

If you format it the right way - with the SD formatter linked above, instead of Windows - it automatically choses the correct values for file system, cluster size, etc.

[FreeZ5]

Originally Posted by Liverpool

Don't format using the FAT file system as that will make only about 2gb of space available. Use FAT32

Note that the original poster updated their original post on Aug 28th to indicate that the problem was fixed.

If the OP is readng this thread, perhaps they can reply indicating what fixed the problem. Likely the SD formatter. but it's always nice to have that confirmed for future folks having the same or a similar problem.

Steve

[Liverpool]

Didn't realise that he fixed the problem since I only read the first sentence ^_^