Zen Touch - HD Quest

I've had a Zen Touch whcih recently got put into a bucket of water by my darling daughter, and i didn't find out for a 'few days'... i've dried it out etc and all appears to work fine, apart form the hard disk, whcih has 'a problem' I'm guessing something to do with the previously mentioned total submersion. Soooooooo?Does anyone know:?Anywhere that sells the Hard dri'ves for theseIf there are any other Hard Dri'ves that are compatible with it (Is it just the 20 & 40 gig Hitachi Travelstars I'm looking at?)Or the best place to pick up broken Zens, they seem to be few and far between on?ebay. Ideally i'd like one fairly cheap in case it's not just the dri've that is fried - happy to pay more if it fixes it, but don't want to pay loads for it, then have to buy anew player anyways... Thanks

Hi Toby - I had to purchase a new hard dri've for my 40GB Zen. I took the hard dri've out and punched the part number into it under Google and found place that had them in stock. It was 98.00 I believe.

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    My question is the following, does?the Zen Touch?let you choose to browse all tracks of an Artist, or must you browse by album?
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    Try "menu"..."Music Library"....."Artists".."scroll to the artist you want"...."view tracks" . Is this what you wanted to do? All the tracks show up for me when I do this.

  • Zen Touch Battery Quest

    when i first bought my zen touch, i started loading songs on it through theusb port because i was told that the usb also charges the battery, but i didnot realize that the usb only charges the battery when the player is turnedoff, so when i loaded my first batch of music onto my player the battery wasnot charging like i thought, so i kept going back and forth from the acadaptor to the usb just to make sure the player was working and to load somemusic onto the player and listen to it to make sure it worked correctly,then i realized i had to fully charge the battery before i could really useit. so after doing all this i decided to just charge the battery fullythrough the ac adaptor before loading anymore music and playing any moremusic on my zen touch. i hope by starting off like this that i didnt do anydamage to the battery or shorten the life of it between charges because ididnt fully charge it at first before doing any transfering and playing ofmusic. please tell me there is no possiblity of ruining the battery life percharge or overall by doing what i did.thank you

    It's hard to know for sure. I even contacted the author of BatteryUni'versity.com to ask about initial charging, and he was unsure as to whether it really makes any difference. So the general school of thought at the moment is that an initial charge certainly doesn't do any harm, so it might as well be done (you'll see some manuals even recommending three complete charges and discharges).

  • Zen Touch firmware questi

    Sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn't find any info. Are there any plans to make the Zen Touch 40g compatible with Yahoo Unlimited? The creative rep at the store told me it was but I soon found out that wasn't true. I based my purchase on compatibilty with unlimited services and will want to return my ZT if there are no plans to make it compatible. Thanks.

    Sleepy,
    Perhaps you should also read the section at the top that states that this is a user interaction board. If you are looking for official answers then contacting support directly would be the best way to do this. The previous answer stating that you should use the search feature is actually not a bad suggestion, if perhaps a bit harsh.
    Doing a quick comparison I see that LSD_User has 50+ posts, most of them constructi've. Not exactly the kind of stats that a board troll would have. Now someone with around 2 posts who goes hostile on their 2nd one....
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  • Zen Touch simple quest

    Hello.
    I've just bought a Zen Touch and after 4 hours charging it the blue led of the power button stopped blinking and the battery icon on the display stopped showing. Is that OK?
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    Actually I think it trickle charges for another 30 minutes, so to get the top performance from the battery you might want to leave it another 30 minutes (Creative, can you confirm this?).
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  • Zen Touch RMA Quest

    Hey y'all. I had to RMA my 20G Touch because of a failed battery. When I checked the RMA status today, I saw that Creative has shipped it back to me. In the Replacement Part section there was this notification: ASSY,PF0990 MAIN 20GB-8.
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    Mods?

    Cat,
    Thanks for the help, but unfortunately, that was my first shot (emailing support to check). Even though I explained that I saw the product had shipped back but without the product having been tested, and asked the same specific questions I'd asked in this thread, Customer Support simply reiterated that the product had shipped. They did not address any of the questions I'd actually asked. I've another email in to them, but at this point I imagine I'll know in a day or so anyway.

  • Easy Zen Touch hd quest

    In the information menu my zens hd shows at 9056mbs
    Is it the Go to Gb thing?
    Or am I missing a gb somewhere?

    Nevermind found the ansxer:
    The main difference is due to the way hard disk manufacturers report hard disk sizes differently to operating systems (OS). The manufacturers use 000 bytes per kilobyte, whereas OS's use 024 bytes per kilobyte. The following list gives various hard disk sizes (in Gigabytes), and how they would appear if competely empty (Manufacturer vs. OS):
    6 = 5.859375
    0 = 9.765625
    20 = 9.5325
    30 = 29.296875
    40 = 39.0625
    60 = 58.59375
    80 = 78.25
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  • Zen Touch Quick Quest

    When you find the album and start playing it, after the first song ends it jumps around instead of going to the second song on the album. Can this be fixed?

    If it skips around the album, most likely you have shuffle enabled, either by personal preference, or because you hit the random button on the front at some point in time.
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  • ZEN TOUCH - NEWBIW JUST BOUGHT ONE - A FEW QUESTI

    As a novice, I have just bought a Zen Touch, I am transfering my CD collection via Media Player 9 which is taking forever, when I access the Creative Media Source Organiser, I noticed that some of my tracks have blue padlocks next to them, why is this? what is it for? and why do some have and some not.
    Is there a quicker way of transferring my CD's?
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    Those are protected files with the padlock.
    You will get the same thing if you download tracks from Napster, iTunes or whoever else.
    You are not legally allowed to transfer those files (except in Europe and then only for a back-up) anywhere.
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  • Zen Touch Questi

    I just bought the Zen Touch, I love it. I cant figure out thow to use the software it came with called Creative Media Source so I can been using Windows Medis Player 0 instead. How do I name files? How do I transfer songs from the Creative Media Source software to my Zen Touch?, for some reason it is not clear
    Also If I am ripping from a Cd I burned myself How do I get the song titles on the Zen Player, put them in by hand?Thank you!<!-- / message -->

    dis974 wrote:
    I just bought the Zen Touch, I love it. I cant figure out thow to use the software it came with called Creative Media Source so I can been using Windows Medis Player 0 instead. How do I name files? How do I transfer songs from the Creative Media Source software to my Zen Touch?, for some reason it is not clear
    Also If I am ripping from a Cd I burned myself How do I get the song titles on the Zen Player, put them in by hand?Thank you!<!-- / message -->
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    When you insert a CD, the tracks will show up on the "RIP" tab of WMP0. You can edit the track information to your liking and then click on the "Rip Music" button on the upper right. You can also edit the track information after a CD is ripped - you do this by going to the "Library" tab and then right click on the track you want to edit and select "Advanced Tag Editor" on the pop up menu. Also from the main menu of WMP0 you can select "Tools" --> "options." Here go to the "Rip Music" tab to select how you want your music ripped (bitrate, format mp3 or WMA, etc.). While you are at it, check out the other tabs, particulary the "library" tab for the options you want.
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  • Zen Touch Car Charger Usage Questi

    ]Hi, I have the Zen Touch and plan on using it mostly in the car. ?All
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    I am wondering if it will be ok to have the car charger plugged in all
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    Is there any real chance of damaging the Zen if I leave the car
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    for most lithium batteries it isnt useful to continusly charge them. I coulnt find an article I read that talks about batteries anyhow this might help
    http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2309p50id2787.htm
    http://www.apple.com/batteries/
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  • USB 1.1 & Protected WMA on Zen Touch quest

    Im thinkin about getting a Zen Touch and i have a couple of questions.
    The first im sure i can get an easy yes to, does zen touch support usb .
    The second however, is a question that i often find avoided on sites and put in fine print.
    Many companies advertise supporting WMA format, but not the <EM>protected</EM> WMA format that music stores such as Musicmatch sell.
    My question obviously, is does the Zen Touch player support protected WMA files that i download from Musicmatch?
    Thanks
    p.s. Does the Zen Touch have a "shuffle" feature like on the iPod that shuffles all the music or just the music on your playlist?Message Edited by JKORCA on 03-08-2005 0:39 PM

    'Yes' to all three questions:
    USB . compatible - yes.
    Can play WMA protected DRM - fairly certain it does, but I've never used it myself - anyone want to confirm?
    Shuffle all - yes - there's a button the front labelled 'random' which shuffles all the tracks on the player.

  • Two Zen Touch Questi

    Is there a firmware upgrade available for the Touch that allows for access to its hard dri've via My Computer through a removable dri've? If not, will there be?
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    I don't understand all the comments regarding dri've letter access. Is this driverless access so you could move files around from computer to computer? If not, then I really don't see the disadvantage of using Nomad Explorer. My Zen Touch shows up in Windows Explorer as "Nomad Explorer". If I wanted to copy files to it, I can (I don't). In my experience, using Windows Explorer for music files leads to a really screwed up stucture on the player with corrupted track numbers, etc..
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  • Zen Touch No Longer Recognized By Windows Media Pla

    <SPAN>My Zen Touch stopping being recognized by Windows Media Player today.<SPAN> I still see the MTP connected icon in the task tray and I still it listed without a warning in Device Manager, but WMP doesn?t recognized that it is attached.<SPAN> I?ve tried different USB ports and a different USB cable.<SPAN> There are no errors in the application log.<SPAN> I reformatting my device and run the cleanup option, but I still can't WMP to see the device.<SPAN> The only changes I can think of is installing IE7 Beta 2 and installing MusicMatch.<SPAN> I?ve since uninstalled MusicMatch, but I still have the problem.<SPAN> Does anyone have any suggestions?<SPAN> Or there a way I can increase the logging so I can get a better idea of what might be failing.

    Hi Ted
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  • OK, Zen Touch Owners, Listen Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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