Windows Vista vs Zen Micro: Software Problems

Hey guys,
Looking for a little help and this seems to be the right place to get, lots of helpful people!I have a 3 year old Zen Micro, 4/5Gb I think and it worked fine with my old Dell laptop which ran XP, I used to drag and drop mpg files easily with the bundled software, all was well. Back in January the Dell laptop reached the end of it's life and I layed my hands on a new Sony Vaio laptop, running the all singing, all dancing brand new shiney Windows Vista. For whatever reason, I had no need for the MP3 player for most of this this summer and now I've come to need it again and it obviously needs updating (all my music is 6 months out of date) and it seems I've lost the original software disc, bummer. So I downloaded the ZenCast Organiser & Sync software off the Creative site as it said it ran withVista and plug in the Micro and .........nothing.
The Sync manager thing just says that there's no player attatched and it won't hook up. Am I missing something? Do I need another driver for it'sor something I've had a look through this site and all. I seem to be able to find is what I've already downloaded. Help!

MiniMan64 wrote:
ow stupid is this though! Why aren't Creative releasing any updates to allow older players to work on new machines?!
Well they are releasing updates, the trouble is you need the old OS to apply them. I suspect there's technical reasons for updates not working on newer OS's. After all Creative couldn't anticipate Vista problems when making older devices (Vista wouldn't have been on hand to test at the time).
BTW Firmware upgrades can be found here (UK version)
or here. (US)
Gift.

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When you are all finished, plug in your Zen Micro and it should be working. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Message Edited by eazysct on 2-3-2005 07:50 AM
Message Edited by eazysct on 2-3-2005 08:27 AM

dennis75 wrote:
Hi,
I also have the problem with the recognition of my zen micro by my PC.
It started when I tried to update to firmware version 2.2.02.
During the update-procedure... it would not go any further, so after half an hour of waiting I clicked on close.
Since then My pc does not recognize my zen!!
When I look at my info in the zen it says it has 2.2.02 installed.
I have tried the following already:
) Install firmware ..0 -> Did not work because it says: please attach zen.
2) ReInstall MediaPlayer 0 -> Did not work... still: "no machine attached".
3) Go to device manager and update driver -> Here it can see the zen and i updated the driver, but still..when I try to update the firmware back to ..0 it says: please attach zen.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Best regards,
Dennis
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