Zen Xtra Keeps Going Wrong!

Hi there,
I've had my Zen Xtra 30gb for around 3 years now and recently it froze and was just stuck paused on a track, so I did the hard reset/format on it, and it seems to be fine for around a month. Yesterday I turned it on again and it shows the welcome screen then resets itself and makes a funny noise, like the hard dri've is getting stuck or something. It repeats this process until I take the battery out. Is it broken? I could probably reset again and it would work but I need something more reliable
Thanks,
sad_muso

Sounds as though your hard-dri've is on it's way out - you could try re-formatting the hard-dri've as this will mark any bad sectors on the hard-dri've as unusable or fix a corrupt file system, but if the hard-dri've is about to give up then a re-format could be the final nail in the coffin. I'd also check to make sure that it's not caused by a corrupt music file - does this only happen on certain music files? If so, they could be corrupt and that's why they are crashing your player. Try re-ripping them and see if that makes a difference.

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