Zen Micro: STARTUP FRE

Well....once again my Zen Micro has frozen upon startup, sometimes freezing at the animation screen, creative screen, or whatever. I have looked throughout the topics and notice this is a very common issue. I have had the problem for a while, and I'm starting to get quite ticked off, to be honest.
Has Creative even acknowledged this problem? If not, I THINK ITS ABOUT TIME.
Is there a real fix BESIDES formatting!?
This seemingly blatant disregard is horrible. I'm starting to think I should have just stuck with an Ipod and followed the masses. Ironically, I received an Ipod as a gift, however I told my father (who gave this gift to me) I'd rather have a Zen Micro. I did not want to have something everyone else had, and I wanted to give the "underdog" mp3 player company a chance. Seems like that decision did me over.
I would really like to see a SOLID response regarding this problem, possibly even by a CREATIVE employee...or am I asking for too much?

DM wrote:The problem lies in the hard dri've. IMO, Seagate made many faulty ST hard dri'ves and shipped them to players which use them such as the Zen Micro. Its unfortunate that this had to happen but it doesn't affect all the Zen Micros and its unsure of when those dri'ves were manufactured and sold.
Without evidence to back this up though it's hard to be sure. Creative have sold millions of players, and I certainly don't see thousands or even hundreds of repeated posts here with this problem.

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Zen Micro Startup Screen Customizatio

Maybe someone can help me with a small problem I'm having:
I recently bought a Zen Micro mini and am quite impressed. Operation and quality has been great aside from one thing I'm having trouble with - I can't change the startup image via Creative Mediasource (or any other way for that matter).
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I have a 5GB zen micro. When I start it up it starts from the song I was last playing. Is there anyway to make it startup or load to the main menu instead of the last played song?
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Zen micro has a possibility to change the startup picture, doesn't it's In the creative mediasource there is an option Change the startup picture (below EAX settings) but it's not acti've, I mean you can't do anything with it. I would love to change the Creative animation for something else but I don't know how, it's just the same with the EAX settings.

Kisiel wrote:Zen micro has a possibility to change the startup picture, doesn't it's In the creative mediasource there is an option Change the startup picture (below EAX settings) but it's not acti've, I mean you can't do anything with it. I would love to change the Creative animation for something else but I don't know how, it's just the same with the EAX settings.
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Zen Micro Photo Fre

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Try doing a disk clean up. Enter recovery mode by removing the battery and then holding the power switch in the on position while replacing the battery until the recovery screen appears. Then select disk clean up. After it is done with the disk clean up, select reboot. If that dosen't work you may have a defecti've player since it is still so new. If that is the case try returning it or if you can't return it, send it to Creative, and they will be able to replace it for you since it will still be under the warrenty.

ZEN micro startup l

i have a quyestion, but first of all, sorry for my english...
when i turn on my zen micro, it appears the zen micro logo (after the creative and the animated), but, for a moment, a group of pixels dissapears. i have the latest firmware version (.). is that normal? what can i do?
please, if you dont understand the problem, let me know and i?ll try to explain it better.
thanks for your help!!!

Do you mean that the logo is corrupted and distorted or that some of it goes away? Ever since I installed the firmware you mentioned half of the logo will disappear and my player will either start to work or a song will begin to play followed by the zen micro stalling.

Creative Zen Micro (Startup Failure) Need URGENT he

Hi, i was on holiday in Singapore about 2 weeks ago, and i bought myself a Creative Zen Micro from one of the local sho
ps.
It worked fine, music played brilliantly, i was happy. However, today when i turned it on, it would display the 'CREATIVE COPYRIGHT' Screen, then followed by 'CREATIVE' in large letters across the screen. It would then freeze on this screen, and the off/on button would soon become useless, which meant that i could either leave it on and kill the battery, or take it out.
When i took the battery out and in again, it would repeat with the 'CREATIVE' sign. Following the 'recovery' methods, i managed to load the screen with all the different options such as clean-up, etc etc. However, when i load any of them up, it would freeze once again and i would end up taking the battery out again.
I have tried the reset button with a pin but that doesnt do anything. I have a spare battery that does exactly the same too. My computer doesnt detect the Zen btw.
I have important documents and almost my lifetime's supply of music that took me almost weeks to rip and store into that Zen. Now that its basically dead, and i bought it in Singapore, i have basically no warranty, i feel as if i have been throwing cases of money into the toilet. I need urgent help, if theres any other ways of restoring access to my Zen.
Check the reviews on a respectable site like amazon.com: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Zen-Micro-6GB-Player/dp/B000AMR76S
After browsing around forums over the internet, I have found many other people complaining about this, which makes it a MAJOR flaw in the Creative Zens. Screw petty chargers and plugs, get the software right.

The problem you have is very simple, yet complicated to be solved. Your zen's hard dri've is dead. Most of the people who own a zen don't know it has a hard dri've inside. Some mp3 players have flash memory. Chances are that you've dropped your mp3 player. Zen's hard dri'ves are very sensiti've and must not be moved around too much. The way to go in this case is to replace the hard dri've. It is actually a micro hard dri've what you need. Seagate ST 5GB MicroDri've CF Type II. Once you have a new Hd installed you can format it using the zen's menu (remove the battery, hold the power button, place the battery in and wait untill you see the menu) This requires some experience formatting HD's and installing firmware. There is another option. You can buy a Patriot 4Gb Compact Flash Card, and follow what I've described above. The good thing about this is that your zen will take more vibration than the original. The bad one is tha those range from $70 - 99. I hope this hel
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My zen micro keeps freez

Hi... I hope you can help me. I am fairly new user and I have had a great experience so far with my zen micro.
My first issue was running Creative MediaSource. These boxes were popping up saying something about associations. I was going to write them down today, but now they are not showing up once I tried to plug in my player with my USB connection. I did find that I had to click yes on the 4-5 boxes to continue on or MediaSource would not run.
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I don't know what to do from here. I have XP on my computer, but I don't know what firmware I have. It is not the newest one from July. I tried to read up on the current issues of the firmware and don't want to create more problems if this firmware is faulty. Also I don't know how to download it and use it with my player if it is on a frozen screen and unrecognized by my USB connection.
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Steph

Can you get into Rescue Mode and run a Disk Cleanup? See the FAQ Part post.

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Anything to be done other than send it back? Seems pretty hopeless to me

I have also experienced startup problems and it seems to be a hard dri've problem. Sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes to boot and I hear the sound of the hard dri've thrashing about. Although it does take a long time, it usually does not freeze. It froze only about three times on startup. When this happens I take the battery out and try again. (FYI- when I inquired with Creative about a reset button the reponse I received instructed me the reset was to take the battery out).Message Edited by lilmightybull on 04-9-2005 2:24 AM

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You guys, being Creative people, should know where I could find some. If any of you have any on your computer, could you send it to me?
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MTP is microsoft's media transfer protocol. Essentially, your micro can now connect to WinXP SP2 computers with WMP0 without loading Creative drivers.
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Well this is my first post on the forums and I am this close to buying a zen micro. I would have bought one yesterday until I stumbled upon the head-phone jack problem. I want to hear from people who have a zen micro problem free and how long you have had it. I've owned 3 previous creative players that have all worked great, so I'm hoping that there are only a small amount of people with this problem making all the noise (e.g. the sony psp dead pixel issue). So if you're happy with your zen micro let me know!!

Kpm,
It's ok, most people miss that option at first so it's no biggie. Personally I own a Zen Micro and take is almost everywhere with me. I have had no major problems and the minor ones were self created. I would highly recommend it. Now I do have a bias (as I am a Creative Employee) but I personally love this player.
Jeremy

Zen micro Freezes at startup screen.... not go

well here is the story, i got my zen micro in feburary, and it worked good for about 3 weeks then i got that headphone jack problem, RMA'd it and got a new one
This new ZM wroks awesome, or it did until about 3 days ago, i tryed starting it up and it froze at the startup screen. i did the recovery mode numerous times tryed to upgrade the firmware and did everything, but nothing worked. Now im a bit angry because since the 60 day period is over i acually need to wait for creative to repair my ZM, and i just dont have time for that!!! on the 29th im leaving to new york, and then the 3rd im leaving for london and wont be back until 8th! but what will be my source of music then?!? this really angers me as i was looking very forward to listening to my mp3 player on the plane rides, at this point i ran outta options. Any help from any of the staff members or members in general as to how to solve this problem or even fix my ZM without ending it back

robtbomb: As per the FAQ, if rescue mode isn't working properly then the player is faulty. All you can do is contact support, perhaps by telephone to expedite matters, and see if they can return the player as a priority.

Zen Micro: Change Startup Scr

When I open up the properties of the Zen Micro (right click while exploring) in the Settings tab theres an option to change the startup screen of the Zen Micro, but its greyed out and you cant change it. Wondering if theres a work around, since a custom startup screen would be very cool.

Nope, it can't be changed.

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