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jusmee · 04-03-2010, 03:51 AM

I plugged it into my wife's Windows machine to put a book on it, and when I tried to access the internal memory from explorer - everything hung. So, I disconnected to try it in my linux machine. Here I could see the files, but the internal drive showed as read only (the SD card was normal).

I tried to copy everything from the internal drive so I could format it, but linux complained about weird file and folder names - obviously corrupted. So I just copied the book files, then disconnected.

I then used the new reflash method reported here recently, holding down the lower lefthand button while powering on. This caused it to say it would clean the flash, but when it tried it reported

"Invalid block number 9"

then went on to reflash the firmware. Now when I connect to my computer, I get only the SD card showing up, the internal memory does not appear.

I checked with gparted, and linux believed there was no partition table on it. I put one on, and setup a fat16 partition, then formatted it. This got it working, but like others experienced, while computers can see it, the PP cannot.

I then tried the new reflash method, 'cleaning' it one more time, but still it shows an invalid block number 9.

04-03-2010, 03:51 AM	#1
jusmee Wizard Posts: 1,047 Karma: 203682 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Libre 2	Now I have internal memory problems on my PP I plugged it into my wife's Windows machine to put a book on it, and when I tried to access the internal memory from explorer - everything hung. So, I disconnected to try it in my linux machine. Here I could see the files, but the internal drive showed as read only (the SD card was normal). I tried to copy everything from the internal drive so I could format it, but linux complained about weird file and folder names - obviously corrupted. So I just copied the book files, then disconnected. I then used the new reflash method reported here recently, holding down the lower lefthand button while powering on. This caused it to say it would clean the flash, but when it tried it reported "Invalid block number 9" then went on to reflash the firmware. Now when I connect to my computer, I get only the SD card showing up, the internal memory does not appear. I checked with gparted, and linux believed there was no partition table on it. I put one on, and setup a fat16 partition, then formatted it. This got it working, but like others experienced, while computers can see it, the PP cannot. I then tried the new reflash method, 'cleaning' it one more time, but still it shows an invalid block number 9.