I've already run the fsck as shown prior. My problem has only gotten worse since I started to "fix it" and everything I've done is listed here. I do remember getting some Drive not found errors about 2 months ago, but I opened the player and reseated the cable and I didn't get the errors anymore. They were intermitten before that anyway and only in the car it seemed. Reseating the player would get it to work.

I did also upgrade from the 2.00 beta 12 to the full release 2.00 not long after. I don't know if that changes anything. I swapped the cable to the end and no change still.

I keep hearing mention about a hardware error. Can anyone tell me more about what this hardware error is? Maybe if I have a little better idea of what I am looking for.

I'm still trying everything I find to try and wipe the drive clean. I tried the builder image and when I try to sync jEmplode it does tell me 1.38 out of 9.28 is available at the bottom. It just happens to be the only info I do still get. Oh well, I'll just keep trying.