Zen Micro Randomly stopped working today. Is stuck on recovery mode

I changed nothing with my computer nothing with the zen. I just turned it on today to listen to it, and it brought me right to the recovery screen after forever of being on the creative screen. It is still recognized by my computer, but everytime I try to reload the firmware off of the creative website, it either freezes or fails. When I try to do a disk clean on it, it does nothing.
What do I do?

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