Zen Sleek Freezing Prob

Once upon a time...
My Zen Sleek froze on the welcome screen when I tried to turn it on, displaying just "CREATIVE". When I get home, I try to use recovery mode. I select "Reboot" though the same happened again. I tried just leaving it though after 2hrs, the battery had gone (it wasn't fully charged). When I plug it in to the mains, it freezes again.
I emailed Creative Customer Support about the issue and they recommended that I format the dri've, which I was reluctant to do as I had important data on the removable disk partition.
Eventually, I weighed out the odds and decided that the data stored was not all that important, so I started the format.
That was at am this morning. it is now half past 0pm and it is still displaying "Formatting.." with no indication as to how long it will take or whether it is doing anything. it may have frozen again?
Any Ideas?
David Halstead

I had the same problem with my zen sleek when i first got it, and i tried reformatting (which doesn't affect the contents of the dri've as the user manual states) and that still didn't work and it froze up probably 5 times in one day.... soooooo, i did the system reboot screen, deleted the firmware, installed the new one i downloaded from the creative support website and it's been running fine since.

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