s10 won't get alive after deleting the partition

[mlekodukye]

hi folks..

i've faced a huge problem with my s10: i was reinstalling winXP on my sister's comp, and my recently bought s10 was plugged for recharging, and i accidentially killed the partition from it with XP's installer (( (i wasn't thinking at that moment that flash drive could be seen as a target for installing OS).. so then i disconnected it and once i turn it on, there's an error message: "file system is damaged format the device" and when it's connected back, the "usb connected" message and the usb logo weren't of the proper light-blue color but of odd kinda yellowish-green...
then i coudn't even format it back for ages until i finally made it using the same damn xp installer. i've created FAT partition, so ok: now i can write to and read from s10's memory. but it acts only like an ordinary flash, no audio player capability is here now..
i made a bunch of attempts to update the firmware, and here my questions begin:

1. i constantly get the "network error" message in the iriver plus 3, even on various computers and internet providers; it happends when i try to do the firmware upgrade, yet iriverplus is updating itself troublessly;

2. i was here: http://nyaochi.sakura.ne.jp/iriverupdate/, and downloaded a few different s10 *.hex files: s10/lat (latin??), s10/est (estonian? eastern??), s10n (the heck is it??). i've put them one by one into root folder of s10, disconnected, nothing happened and seems like nothing won't. so as far as i can guess, there should be functioning intact previous firmware in player in order it could recognise the new one and replace itself, or i'm wrong? what if the previous firmware is damaged? (in case of this being possible; could i kill it when i deleted the partition?);

3. the site http://www.iriverplus.com is down at the moment - can it be the reason for issue #1 ?;

4. have anyone had this odd yellowish-green color scheme once the firmware went wrong ?;

5. what should i do ??? (in fact, the main question, i guess there's too much of them to get answers to each, though..)

thanks for reading this all, sorry for glitches in my english

[DarkMetroid]

Well I got that yellowish-green tent to it when I friend it by plugging it into my 360. Do you still have your warranty by chance?

[mlekodukye]

Yes, i have, in fact i've bought it 2 weeks ago so it's ok with warranty.. but i really hate to take it to the service center, they'll grab it for, say, month and there's a great probability that, being unable to manage to repair it, they'll just replace it with the new one..
i'd rather like to find solution by myself and maybe anyone will advice me something.. i've seen guys here who are even into modifying the firmware, guess they know a lot about it.. would be cool to hear their say..
and DarkMetroid, how have you got rid from that problem?

[mlekodukye]

ah, by the way, i think it's important. iriver plus 3 used to show the firmware version in the bottom left corner prior to the crash.. now it doesn't.
and also: almost everytime i run chkdsk on it, it finds previously deleted files, and there are errors and messages about truncation and damaged clusters....

[mlekodukye]

sad to see the thread is almost dead... i'm just about to give up and bring it to the service-center.
please, can anyone of those lucky ones who have alive s10 tell what system files have to be there in the root folder when everything's allright, i remember there was tuner.dat which purpose is obvious, and something more, but i don't remember what...

[mlekodukye]

i've found this other one is the s10.sys, which contains the version of firmware. please, anyone, write down here its content.. thanx..

[mlekodukye]

kind people gave me s10.sys, but it didn't help.. i'm frustrated..

[mlehtela]

SORRY for the late response to this, but I've had a problem similar to this with mine..., and I resolved it by reformatting it on the cumputer... is that what you did? because, when you do this, it gets all scrrewed up and all the files get deleted... right?

so then what I did was reformat it in FAT32. This also didn't work, but after doing it 3 or 4 times, interchanging between FAT32 and FAT, it somehow worked. It took me 3 days before it got running again, but it worked. You jsut have to play around with the formatting thing -- sorry if that sounds bogus. Let me know if this helped at all

[mlekodukye]

hi, mlehtela, thank you for your reply!

i tried so much combinations of reformatting, zeroing out bit by bit, deleting the partintion [btw, did you have your problem due either to formatting or deleting the partition?] and recreating it again.. nothing helped.. so i gave up and took it to the repair center.. i'll know if they have managed to repair it in few days, and i'll post about it. but what really gnaws me is that in case it'd be repaired i unlikely will know what exactly they did for it, so the mystery will remain..
i stress on deleting of partition because it seems to me that the solution may be in organisation of s10's memory, i deleted it too fast to notice for shure, but it seemed to me that there was some space of unallocated space about 2mb in size, in addition to 1945mb of FAT partition...
so in this regard, as i asked for it in another thread (flash firmware: basic technical questions), i'd like to ask someone daring to look at one's functioning s10 using fdisk, partition magic or XP installer to see whether there's that unallocated space by default or no.. with precautions not to delete anything, of course...

[mlehtela]

Hmm. Well mine was caused because when my computer started up it went to the "Chkdisk" utility and my S10 was plugged it. I guess windows thought it was an external hard drive and deleted my firmware on my s10.

Best of luck to you, I know how frustrating it is ~~ especially with such an awesome mp3 player like the s10! =D

[henryverde]

mlekodukye,

Did you ever get your s10 working? if so, how did you do it. I have the same problem. I reformatted it with WinImage. (see post flash firmware: basic technical questions)

Any help from anyone is appreciated.