My Zen Nano is dead! Help me!

Hello there!
I've got one Zen Nano for almost 0 months and it never gave me any trouble. It was working perfectly till yesterday.
Today, when I tried to turn it on, it turned the backlight on, displayed the Zen Nano logo and right after it, it shut down. I've tought it was a problem with the FAT, so I tried to format it, without any success, windows explorer would freeze when I right click the dri've...
The other thing that could be wrong, was the firmware, so I downloaded the firmware update thingy (I've done it before, but there was a new version I didn't have yet), turned it on holding the Play/Pause button to get in the recovery mode. It recognized my version and said it would update to the new one. I said ok and waited for a while.
A few moments later it showed the following message "Error - could not perform SCSI command."
The updated closed, and since then, my Zen Nano is completely dead.
Is there anything I could try? Any tip? Suggestion?
Thank you for your attention.

I've updated to .2.blahblahblah and right after it was finished updating it turned off only to never turn on again.
With a battery dead
Without a battery (plugged into USB) dead
No recovery
No USB recognition
It's a lifeless lump of crap right now. What a waste of money. Its only 2 months old....argh.

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