Creativ Zen Dead Fore

Well after 3 months whit my Creativ Zen 8gb.
It have been dead for 2 days.
It frezzed on a file transfer when i moved files into my player.
It was still giving away the blue light but was unable to start it or enter the rescure/recovery mode.
So i used the reset thingy you know took something small and pressed the button inside on the player.
Which turned the player of but it didnt restart.
My battery is was fully charged before it died nothing is working not even the blue lamp is shining.
It dosent get detected by eny of my 3pcs.
A wall charger dosent work either its completly dead.
All my work and music which have been purchased is unreachable.
And i cant return it or get it repaired because more then 3 months have passed.
The worst of all is that my sister just brought the same player whit her savings and i hope she wont end up whitout a player.
If theres enyone ho has a clue what i can do right now then i am happy to listen.
For those ho is almost having the same issue or other intrested persons:
After 2 weeks when i brought it i had a similar issue when moving files.
It died like now,The blue lamp was still shining and i was unable to do enything.
I didnt know about the reset thingy so it was completly out of the question back then.
So what i did was waiting.
The batteri runned out after a day and was able to connect it to the pc and recharge it and acces it agin.
So if the file transfer fail and you cant start it up dont press the reset thingy.
Because thats what i did after reading the help stuff here and i am unable to get it working agin.
I have only had this issue twice which both time acured when i was moving files.
(not .mp3 or .avi there's a data folder or something on the mp4 where you can store all other stuff which dont remb the name on)
The only time this problem can occur is when you move stuff in or out of that folder.
Have heard that this problem have been or almost every mp3 of your products so i will most likely never purchase a mp3 from you ever agin.
It was really a good one,The best one i ever had so far.
But if this issue had been solved on your later products then i would most likely get a new one.

If you want to connect it to USB "like a memory stick" and drag songs over like it was a dri've, the Plays for Sure firmware upgrade will get you that.

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