Hi its me again.
Thank you very much for your help on Sunday. It really worked. However, I ran into problems again. I tried to sync the Sandisk sansa c250 with a Windows Media player and after rebooting it starting acting weird and it said there were no songs in it. the empty space in settings in the player display showed some enormous number in MB.
Today, it is acting even worse. It shows the boot screen and then that's it.
Recovery mode seems to be working because when I lock the "hold" switch, hold the record button, and press the power button, the boot image comes up (which says Sansa and shows the picture of a reptile) and there is a prompt that says "Please connect USB". So then, I turn the lock "hold" switch to the white part to turn hold off and then i connect it to the USB with the computer. Then the prompt says
Mini-B->Device Mode
USB2.0 MSD
LUN0 locked
When I open disk utility on the computer (Mac OS X, 10.4.11), it shows up the 16 MB unformatted partition, detailed information is as follows:
Name : SanDisk Sansa C200 Media
Type : Disk
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : SanDisk Sansa C200 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
Connection Type : External
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 16.0 MB (16,777,728 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Please help me with repairing the player.