I've bought a second hand Bebook. It's the original Bebook afaik, it's from 2008. It worked at first but then:
Turn on the Bebook and it cycles through the brand name screen and to the next screen which only has "Recent files" folder on it. Pressing the number for Recent files brings up an empty screen.
Plug the ereader back into the computer while it's switched on and it brings up the message to press ok to connect, pressed ok, open windows explorer and the ereader is visible.
Click on the USB Drive (in this case the F
in windows explorer and it shows nothing on the right side of windows explorer.
Right click and look at properties and find 122 MB used space.
I have used the reset button (a couple of times) but no change.
I have tried to copy an ebook onto the ereader and it wanted a folder created for it, didn't want me to save it to root.
Tried to create a folder and it brought up this error:
"An unexpected error is keeping your from creating this folder. If you continue to receive this error you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.
Error 0x8000FFF: Catastrophic failure"
Tried to research this error but there's so much, it's so broad and so general. It seems it can happen under sooo many circumstances. I did try unplugging the device, disabling the anti virus program, turning the Bebook back on, plugging it in to the computer again. the same empty drive in windows explorer and the same message when I tried to create the folder, and the same used space on the Bebook.
I've searched through these forums and thought downloading the firmware might be a solution, that it would rebuilt the system, but all the links I could find are broken and I haven't had any luck finding a working link on the net.
Any ideas? It's not going to break my heart if it's dead, I only pain $20 for it, but I like playing with gadgets and seeing if I can resucitate this one would please me a lot.
Do you need any more information?
Thanks in advance.