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Originally Posted by jjansen
Things have now got much worse. After waiting an additional hour I gave up. I have tried plugging in the USB cable (not seen by Windows). I have tried powering off - doesn't happen. I have tried pushing the reset button many times (>10) - does nothing. The reader just keeps saying "formatting internal memory". My next step is to actually open the case and disconnect and reconnect the battery. I don't like that - very messy process, but I don't know what else to try. Any suggestions?
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Just in case you had my problem: with the reset 10 times thing you need to poke the reset button, slide the power switch, it should then blank the screen and come up with the startup screen.
You repeat the reset / power thing as soon as the startup screen appears, repeat it 10 times and on the 11th restart you should get a reflash firmware sceen. You then need to connect to a pc running windows, with the latest Sony firmware flasher and run that.
If you never get the blank screen / restart screen with the power slide I'd guess repeating in 10 times won't help.
You could try this alternate way of getting to reformat:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2706