Creative 30g Nomad Zen Nx With Vista Problems.

I am so peed off. I just brought a brand new laptop from Comet with Vista here in the UK and have just realised I cannot use it with my zen nx 30gb mp3 player! Why on earth is there no new drivers for it or a simple way to get around it! My mp3 player goes with me anywhere. I am not happy with creative at all and this is very bad customer service. I have a 7 day money back from comet I am so tempted to take it back as my laptop does not work with my mp3 player or lots of my software. Has anyone else brought a laptop and taken it back? Do you think they will let me me and I'm not happy with it at all and want to go back to xp.
Many thanks if you can help.
Ross
Message Edited by ross_patzelt on 05--20072:04 AM

From what i know it will only work with the latter firmware versions (ver2.x.x) on vista, ther emay be a workaround if you serarch for Zen NX+vista on here, but otherwise you need to update the firmware, which must be done on a windows XP machine, that has been checked to make sure that windows media player and windows media player runtime are not lurking in the add/remove programmes bit on the control panel (important!)
as you said it will also wipe everything on your player so you need to back it up.
Its also not a good idea to store your music on a portable player, as you should have at least one back up incase something goes wrong/happens.

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