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Luckily for you, I don't think it sounds like the drive is failing...
The iriver firmware isn't stored on the drive and can function properly with a faulty or absent drive, so any problems with that are not likely to be drive related. Having said that, long startups with the iriver firmware could be to do with the drive because IIRC it performs a check on the drive at startup, which takes ages if the drive is bad.
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