Zen Xtra (Nomad) - Unable to read from device error (have tried everythi

Recently, I've been having problems with my Creative Zen Xtra Nomad mp3 player. One day it started freezing and lagging massi'vely when I would enter nomad explorer. Now it's virtually impossible to drag and drop something from nomad explorer to my computer or vise versa (keep getting the unable to read from device error). However, sometimes I am able to get an mp3 or two after about 5 minutes of transfer time.
I have no idea why it is doing this. One day I'm transferring my data back and forth with no problem, and the very next day I am getting this freezing, lagging, and errors when trying to transfer. The only thing that changed was me formatting my computer in between it working and it not working, but I did reinstall the driver and nomad explorer once I formatted (I'm also using the same USB 2.0 cable, but it worked fine the day before, so I am pretty sure that's not part of the problem). I was using the mp3 player to store about 0 GB worth of data for when I formatted, and now I'm unable to retrieve virtually any of it. I've tried everything under the PC Connectivity link short of formatting the mp3 hard dri've (and that is not an option because I need the files). I took it to a friends house to try on his computer, but it acted the same way. I'm completely stumped. Is there anything I haven't ruled out? Also, I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2, and I was using SP2 before the format as well if that has any relevance.
Please let me know if I've left out any important information relevant to this issue. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-Noah Patterson
Edit: I'm having the exact problem as this guy, but I didn't seem to find any answers on his thread.
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=6459&query.id=3264 5#M6459
Message Edited by talzok on 09-20-2005 08:03 AMMessage Edited by talzok on 09-20-2005 08:09 AM

Never use MP3 players to store important data, or as a single point of storage for any data (that includes keeping a backup of the player's audio tracks). You can have problems like this with accessing the data, as well as simply dropping the player and losing the lot.
There are a couple of methods I've seen that have worked to retrieve data:
. Driver update - either update to the latest drivers, or nonsensically downgrade to the drivers that come on the install CD.
2. Notmad Explorer - use the Xtreamer function in Notmad Explorer's trial version (which is free) to access the data and download it. It will be tedious, because I assume you have to download one file at a time.
As for your general problem, I would try using Creative's MediaSource instead of Nomad Explorer to access the player (people generally don't have good experiences with Nomad Explorer).
Also make sure you download the latest versions of the drivers (taking above into account), MediaSource, and the MediaSource plugin from Nomadworld.com downloads.
Once you have the data off (hopefully!) you might simply want to reformat it if none of the above hel
ps.

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