Zen Micro Crashes After Song Trans

after i have finished transferring songs for windows media to my micro, and then i disconnect it (even when the white arrow screen shows), it crashes and i have to remove the battery. awhile ago it wasnt even transferring, anybody else having similar problems or a solution? pls help

Tried a disk cleanup? To access the Rescue Mode on the Zen Micro, remove the battery, hold the power switch to the "on" position, reinsert the battery. Choose Disk Cleanup from the menu. Note: Disk cleanup should not remove your tracks. It searches through the disk for files and rebuilds the index, and can be useful for correcting any strange behaviour.
Can you check with another PC to see if you get the same problem?

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agrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
so last night, i installed the latest firmware and did the disc cleanup.
this morning, the zen micro crashed/froze again!!
- turned it on
- creative splash screen (this screen now scares me)
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- removed battery
- started back up in recovery mode
- did disc cleanup
- rebooted
- creative screens again
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worked after that. of course i had to add all the songs back into the now playing.
if i'm going to have to do this all the time, then i'm going to start to regret buying this player.
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after updating my zen micro to the new firmware (playforsure) and the necessary software update of the media source organizer - i wasn?t able to rename the title on the player - like before the update: it'ss only possible to rename them one by one and not e.g. a full album (genre).
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You can try these two:
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/godfather.html
If they're not to your liking, try Google. These are not the only ones, but they're good (and free). Tag & Rename is also very good, but it costs a few bucks.

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Well, I'm not sure if it's reassuring or just depressing that I'm not alone here. Exact same problem - after over a year of working great, I turned it on a couple days ago and the stupid thing froze on the "Creative" screen. Every time I restart it, same thing, plus I noticed that it makes a little boinging skippy noise. Anything you choose in recovery mode, it just freezes. Also, I've noticed that it now smells weird. As if, perhaps, electronics have become slightly singed.
Bah! At this point I think I might try Ouija's method. Even the Creative FAQ suggests it as a last resort!
"If this fails, or if you are getting the "hard dri've error" message on startup, listen closely to the Zen when it starts up. If you can hear the hard dri've repeatedly clicking at the end of the start up chances are the heads or related mechanics are jammed in some way. At your own risk you can try and free this by firstly powering the player down, then giving it a hard slap on the side. An alternati've and less drastic approach is to hold it in your outstretched arm with the screen towards you and twist your wrist back and forth as quickly as you can."
I've already given it a shake, and no results. But I can hear something rattling inside, which I'm sure is a great sign. :/
If smacking doesn't work, then I guess I'll have to buy a Nano at the Boxing Day sales... How sad that even now I would probably buy a Creative over one of those ugly ass Shuffle things and the annoyance of iTunes. I have no principles whatsoever. I would never drop more than $00 on one again though. And no more harddri've players. At least I've got a nice white $250 paperweight for my desk now...

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I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
When I try to transfer music to my Zen Micro in Creative Media Source it doesn't work, it rips the song from the CD but when it comes to Writing it it just says Error: Unable to create file.
I looked through old topics and couldn't find this problem. Help!!
thanks a lot,
sam.

samm wrote:
I have 355 songs on my Zen Micro and it says I have 55 MB space. I deleted about 0 songs and the free space didn't change at all... I think there's something wrong. ?
Did you try to delete the song with the Micro itself? You probably just deleted it from the Now Playing playlist, not from the unit itself. You have to navigate directly to the song (By going Artist->Album->Song) first and then select delete to truly erase the file.
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I disconnected and reconnected... now i just get the "docked" icon and can't access anything else on the player...
... when disconected from the PC it's working fineMessage Edited by jaf089 on 02-25-2005 06:53 PM

don't try to play it while it's hooked up to the usb. it's got a calendar organizer function that syncs to outlook so even if you're not using it, when you hook up your usb, your Micro wants to talk to outlook and not play your music. also, anytime it's connected to the pc, it wants to talk to your pc, expecially if you are using explorer. i recommend using the ac adapter to charge if you want to listen to and avoid the USB if you want to listen, just my $.02
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Dear Creative!
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Here's info on it, but in German
http://www.vivanco.com/cms/com/detail_produkt?mv_session_id=UURIdUDP&mv_pc=27&mv_ arg=9590&own_key=562
I'm sure you can find sth similar in your neighborhood.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=usb+otg+copy+bridge&btnG=Search
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ryonavin wrote:I would recommend trying to reset it. When you take the battery out there is a little hole that you can stick the end of a paperclip or a ballpoint pen into to flip the reset switch. That fixes most of the issues.
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