Recovery Mode My MP3 is in recovery mode every option it give me i have tried numerous times, I've also reset it quite a few times nothing works

Anonymous Nov 02, 2007

My mp3 has a loose hard disk and its in recovery mode right now.

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· 1. remove all creative software from your pc (do this from start menu/settings/control panel/add or remove programs)
2. Uninstall Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Player 11 runtime. This will rollback the pc to an earlier version of WMP.
3. Download the latest version of the zen driver from this location: http://us.creative.com/support/downl...ame=Windows+XP
4. Make sure the zen is not connected to the pc and install run the exe file to install the software on your pc. at some point, the install will tell you that the unit is not connected. Connect the unit to proceed. it will also notify you that you are replacing an existing software, or something to that effect. I accepted or said OK to this popup. Once the firmware is installed, my started to work fine. You can now reinstall WMP from microsoft website. Hope this works for you.

All else failes download the recovery tool from creatives website.

Posted on Dec 20, 2007

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