Forever Docked I formated the zen and was gong to strat adding new songs to it bu then i didnt. I left it pugged in to charg and the next day, it wont come off of docked and my computer said its not there. Help!

change the battery

i had this problem alot for first week or two when moving stuff about best bet is to reset the little bugger leave it to sort itself out with the newly transfered data then switch off and upoun power up reset again hope it helps :)

Go into your lab top and click on remove hardware safety.Find your zen the click remove..Next do not unplug it,shut off your zen then you should see instantly on the zen its charging...

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When you let the battery totally run down on these, it has to sit and charge, looking quite dead, for a little while before it has enough of a charge to boot-up again.

I had the same problem. Have you tried a soft reset - paper clip into small hole on the side with the on/off slider. Hols it in for about 5 seconds.

Disabled it under device manager! So that it still draws power from the USB port without attempting to pair with the computer.

If your Zen V wont respond to anything, try this, plug it in to the computer, hold the power switch in the on position, THEN trigger the reset button, worked like a charm for mine, I had thought it a lost cause."

Plug it in and start charging it. Once it has a decent charge if you ever have that problem again... (see below)

Using the instructions below try Reset, first, if that doesn't fix it try the Cleanup method, if that doesn't work... (if you have a backup of all your music on your computer), try the format option


This is from Creative's website:
Zen V Plus and Zen V

1. Detach your player from the PC if it is connected, and turn off the player.
   

If the player stops responding, you can reset the player. To reset the player, gently
insert a thin object into the Reset hole located below the power switch.
2. Press and hold the Play button while powering on your player.
3. When the player displays the Creative logo, release the Play button.

It will display the following options:
Clean Up
Scans the player and removes invalid links from its music library.
Does not affect music files themselves.
Format (All) Caution! Erases all content!
Save a copy of your player's content before formatting.
Reload OS/ Firmware Caution! Erases your player's firmware.
DO NOT select the Reload Firmware option unless you have access to a PC and you have downloaded the necessary firmware to install.
Reboot Reboots the device.

You might have pulled it out when it was transferring information. You probably need to upgrade its firmware. Go to Creative's website and check.

It happened to me too. Reinstall the software (Creative media explorer e.t.c.)