My creative zen stone (with speakers) is being very strange! Please he

Hi!
I got a pink creative stone with speakers (and no screen) about a month ago.
This morning I tried to turn it on, and the green light came on, but there was no sound. When I plugged it into my computer, it wasn't recognised, and it didn't come up on my computer, therefore, I can't use the recovery tool
. No amount of pushing at the on and play button, or resetting it with a paperclip works.
I'd really, really like some help!!! Thankyou very much!!!!
Katherine

here's my suggestion, if you have not formatted your player before, format it using fat32. What happens is, it immediately plays the songs 3 to four seconds after you press the play button long enough.
with the default settings of zen stone, the player starts playing songs after ten or so seconds that might be the reason you had time to fiddle with the toggles before the songs play when in fact it takes that long because it wasn't formatted to fat32.

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