Zen xtra problem - not rebuilding library ful

I had taken my battery out and when i put it back in the library started to rebuild as normal. however the bar that shows its rebuilding progress only went about 3/4s of the way across. it then went straight to the menu. there is about 50 albums missing. these are albums i've loaded over the last month. i think theyre still on there somewhere because the memory is at the same amount as before. i really want these albums back as i dont own them and wont be able to reload them. Ive tried resetting but its still the same. Ive also tried getting to the recovery mode menu but thats not even showing up. has anyone else had this problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Try a disk cleanup again. I would make sure you're connected to the mains adapter as cleanup can be a little battery consuming.

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