Zen Xtra: USB Cable length

Does anyone know what the cable length is? Because just recently, a friend of mine bought me one, and I needed to get a PCI to USB card because my PC only supported USB .. But, I want the cable to reach up to the top of my tower at least.
Thanks.

I would measure mine, but since it's all tangled into the spaghetti of wires by my computer, i'll take a guess and say it's about 6 feet. Length enough to go from my computer up to my desk with cord to spare.

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He is probably having the same problem I am.
All the drivers for the are installed before the player is connected. The Zen Xtra is connected afterwards.
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Just to get to the switchbox I'll need an almost 13 foot usb cable (really like 12 and 1/2 feet). So I'm assuming I'll need a 15 foot usb cable to get to the switchbox. At that point, any short cable attached from the switchbox to the printer will still exceed the 15 foot limit since I'm assuming one must add the length of the longer cable [15 ft] and smaller cable from switchbox [say 2 or 3 ft].
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In my thinking, a powered switchbox is much like adding a powered usb hub to the end of a 15 foot cable and then would allow one to go another 15 feet. Theoretically thinking, with many powered hubs or powered switchboxes one could really take the cable out an extremely long distance (if not infinity) - ?

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now when I use the 15 feet USB cable and the system says USB device not recognized.
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"The maximum cable length specified by the IEEE1394 standard is 4.5 meters. However, more recent tests have shown that certain high quality firewire cables can achieve longer lengths without significantly affecting transmission quality. Several manufacturers sell firewire cables longer than 5 meters (some up to 50 meters)."
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There is forum discussion on the topic I was reading yesterday:
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Tried a disk cleanup on the player? To run a Disk Cleanup you need to access the Rescue Mode. 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. 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.
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