Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra MP3 Player - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

After three months of trying and trying in many computers, following many, many procedures found all over the Internet, my Creative Nomad has accepted the firmware and has borned again.
What I did?
1. Connected the Nomad on a computer with Windows XP and Windows Media Player 9, that never has been touched by a creaive device.
It recognizes the device but can´t find any update to the drivers,
2. Updated Windows Media Player 9 to Windows Media Player 10,
3. Restart the computer
4. Connect the Nomad and the computer recognizes the device and autamtically search and found updated MPT drivers.
5. Run the firmware update program "ZenXtraP4SAudible_PCFW_LB_2_10_03 (Creative Zen Xtra PlaysForSure Firmware 2.10.03)"
6. Finally the magic button always has been disabled was enabled so start reloading firmware.
And now the Nomad is working in windows vista.

The difference between the computer where the firmware works and the others is that this has never had media player 10 or 11 and never has installed creative drivers.
Hope this can be useful to smoeone, somewhere, sometime.....

Unclear if you want to just use the HD as a drive, or whether you want to recover the MP3 data from it? This may help to access the drive https://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows

download from here Creative Worldwide Support

It's probably in the output circuit. Germanium transistors are notoriously noisy.

Holy **** suggestion 4 worked. Top right side near the menu button - a little whack with the middle finger knuckle, and you can actually hear the hard drive spin up. I still like this player - 30GB for heaven's sake !!! and any iPod that comes into this house goes to my kids anyway. Might be time to make a backup of all the music though....

use windows xp sp1, windows media player 9. plug device. wait for mtp display. reboot pc. un plug device then plug it again. upgrade media player to 10. that's it! enjoy!

I DONT CD SET UP FOR WINDOWS VISTA

You will need to take it apart to examine the extent of the damage. The button is attached to the motherboard. Find the correct button, and see if the button has been pulled off along with its pad. If the pad has been detached from the motherboard, you'll have to replace the entire motherboard.

If you don't have any idea what this means, you can find a technician to do it for you. Just scroll down on this page to the Repair Service box, put in your zip code, and you'll see some services to choose from.

where ca i find a driver for a creative zen touch, one that realy works

Hi mandellbradl...

Deleting Files,Pictures,Videos,Audio Books, Apps,etc. from MP3 Player/Ipod
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BIG WARNING: DO NOT DELETE THE FILES NEEDED TO OPERATE YOUR MP3 PLAYER.
Hook up your mp3 player to your computer
Go to your desktop and double left click on "My Computer"
When it opens you will see listing that says "Devices with Removal Storage" your mp3 player should be listed there.
Right click on your mp3 player, and a window will open, right click on "Open" and now your files/songs should be visible.
Hold the left click down and drag it across all the files/songs that you do not want this will highlight the files/songs you do not want, release,right click and then click on "Delete"
Now you mp3 player should be clear of the files/songs you do not want.
ONE MORE BIG WARNING: BE CAREFUL AND DO NOT DELETE THE FILES NEEDED TO OPERATE YOUR MP3 PLAYER.
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I did a google search for nomad jukebox driver and came up with a bunch of stuff, here are some of the links:

http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular

http://www.driverskit.com/freedownload/MP3/Creative/NOMAD_JukeBOX_File_Manager_2_00_35/18258.html

http://www.driverskit.com/freedownload/MP3/Creative/NOMAD_Jukebox_Zen_Xtra/18226.html

I don't know it these will help but try them and see.

Thanks,
Mark

Hello, kindly get the driver at : www.creative.com/
www.nodevice.com/driver/.../Creative-Labs/MP3_Player.html

Kind regards, Jay__GT

Hello, kindly get the driver at : www.creative.com/
www.nodevice.com/driver/.../Creative-Labs/MP3_Player.html

Get it here please : www.nodevice.com/driver/.../Creative-Labs/MP3_Player.html
www.mycreativefansite.com/.../creative-zen-v-plus-installation-cd.html

Please get here: www.nodevice.com/driver/.../Creative-Labs/MP3_Player.html
www.mycreativefansite.com/.../creative-zen-v-plus-installation-cd.html
Regards, vote if satisfied please, Jay

Hello
Have you used the Creative Labs free MP3 player recovery tool? if not try it first. Here is the link to the tool at Creative Labs support site, go there and read about the tool and download it, you have nothing to loose at this point...

http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=213&subCatID=214&prodID=9288&prodName=ZEN%20Xtra&subCatName=ZEN&CatName=MP3+Players

TDG1 do you get the same where the logo comes up? or is yours dead?

read this tread in the middle is the solution
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view....

YOU CANT IF YOU DONT HAVE CONNeCTION IDIOT!!

go to http://support.creative.com/downloads/welcome.aspx
Driver Number three helped me (rightclick on properties, the open compatibility and click on compatibility to XP SP3) then run the driver.
This solved my problem. I then installed CreativeMediaSource and I was able to access my player through this programme, although it hasn't shown up in 'my computer', well, happy to have access after vista...

In the center.