Zen touch intermittent transfer probl

Hi, just bought a 20gb Zen touch, and I am getting errors when transfering mp3's via Media Source.
I have installed the latest firmware and drivers. It seems to transfer between 800-000 files ok then errors with "Player either not connected or busy - please try later" I have reset the player, formatted the dri've, in fact tried everything in the rescue menu. I have also loaded the software on my laptop and get the same
problem. Do I have a faulty Zen? Cheers.

If you were the only person to encounter it then I would say you had a faulty Zen, but others have had it with other players also. There's lots of connection troubleshooting advice here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net, some of it relevant and some of it not.
I would personally buy a known good USB card for the desktop PC i.e. Belkin or Adaptec, and see if that solves it. It's not a particularly great solution, but it will tell you straight away if the issue is the USB chipset. Try and buy the card somewhere you can return it if it doesn't help.

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<SPAN>Here's the thing - we started out as friends, Zen Touch and I...
<SPAN>I double-checked the software and plug-in versions to make sure I had the most current. I attached the device and opened WMP. I can't figure out how to take files from the Zen Touch and put them on to my PC library. I need to transfer my entire cache of music from my Zen to the computer. And I just now realized that when trying to use the MediaSource Organizer earlier it put a file on my computer with the folder name "Man.." and I can't delete it. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that the file name contains two periods - I can't rename the file either, all I get when I try is an error that says "cannot delete: cannot read from the source file or disk". This is getting quite frustrating. More likely than not I don't need the new PlaysForSure upgrade but ) I cannot stand not having the latest upgrade and 2) I need to be able to transfer files easily between the device and my comp, which I was able to do until recently. Again, I beg the techno powers that be - HELP!

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If your battery isn't charging you should first try resetting the player. If this doesn't help then try running a disk cleanup. For the Zen Touch: To access the Rescue Mode hold down the play button and KEEP it held down, press the tiny reset switch once, and KEEP the play button held down until the player boots into the Rescue Mode. Choose Disk Cleanup from the menu. For the Zen Micro: 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.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the help i found here when my Zen Touch's power button was lit but nothing was on the screen and it wasn't responding to anything i did!
I was literally really freaking out that all my music would be gone and i'd have to buy a new one (really can't afford to) when i thought to try online and see if anyone else had had this problem and found some people had and that they'd pressed the reset button with a paperclip and that it had solved it - with breath held, i tried this and it worked so thank you all very much - Phew x4000!!
LisaMessage Edited by lisamclisa on 03-24-200605:4 PM

Ouch, very unfortunate timing for a PC crash/freeze.
If the player won't even go into Rescue Mode at all, then there is little else you can try. It would be best to contact Customer Support anyway to see what they advise, and to see if there's anything they can do to assist you.
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http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/650/flash7qn.jpg
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Hi folks,
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using winmedia player, as well as the conventional explorer extension, no difference.
copying a batch of files to the Zen... a file (few/none - sporadically) gets copied, the next one stalls halfway, and gets skipped. all consecuti've files do not get copied.
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this does not seem to be the case.
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