Dead or froz

Greetings. I have a 4 months old Vision M 30G. It suddenly became not responding yesterday. The blue light on the switch stays on; no response from turning the switch on or off; no response by resetting it. Nothing on the screen at all. I charged it whole night last night, same thing today. Does anyone have any info to help me on this? Thanks so much!!Message Edited by caryz on 02-07-200809:00 AM

i had the same problem but only after 2 days. I too posted here and looked for help online. no one with creative was helpful. bottom line is its broken. Luckily i can send mine back as its in warranty. hopefully you have extended warranty? or just another poorly built creative product for the list ...

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Try this yet then.
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(skip to second paragraph if you want to get straight to the point)
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nobrex wrote:
Hello, i think my 13" 2.53Ghz Unibody (mid2009) MBP's hard drive has had it's last spin. I was using it normally in bootcamp, when windows7 froze, so I rebooted holding the power button....windows wouldnt start any more...ok, so i tried to boot into OSX...stuck at the loading screen with the apple.
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Did a extensive hardware test (boot + D), all OK, booted from install disk and tried to run disk utility, but it crashed when trying to locate the drives (didn't even list the drive on the right pane). Single User mode wont load either, will give the same COM RESET message. I am literally out of options here.
Is there something i can do to either fix this or verify 100% that my hard disk is truly dead?
I have a backup in timemachine so the data is ok, but the timing couldnt be worse, i have no time to fix this now and needed a working laptop, highly frustrating.
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Welcome to the Apple Forums!
Your HDD is probably dead, since the error doesn't appear to indicate something wrong with the motherboard. Just buy a new 2.5" HDD. I don't know about prices in Brazil, but here in the US, a 1TB drive runs for around US$100. Also, check on eBay for people who upgraded their drive and are selling their Apple drive. Some will ship to Brazil, and you can score those for $50-100.
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