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Techy Stuff & PC : mp3 player help needed
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From: MSN NicknameCheery_Stu  (Original Message)Sent: 1/2/2005 4:44 PM
Does anyone knoa about these things
 
I got an MP3 player for christmas. Its a creative Mu Vo Tx usb one. Trouble is I cant get it to work proparly. It works fine as a player but the problem is getting it to be visible as a drive on the PC.
Its basically a memory stick and should act like a removable drive. I use win98SE and it does come with drivers for this. When its plugged in, it detects it and it does appear in device manager under the drives section. But it never appears in windows explorer as a drive letter so I cant put any files on it. The PC does have up to letter H in hard drives already so In device manager I have changed the letter of the mp3 player to be higher than 'H'. This has made no difference and the MP3 player still doesnt show in windows explorer.
 
I then tried the device on another win 98 pc (at work) which only has a C drive and installed the drivers as I had done at home. The mp3 player then showed as drive E.
As far as I can see the only difference is that my pc at home has many hard drives.
 
Any ideas would be welcome.
 
Stu


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From: MSN Nicknameest_HallSent: 1/3/2005 2:56 PM
You could try changing one hard drive's letter to something else (like if it's E: change it to L:) and try adding player then. maybe it'll show up as E: drive then.
 
i'm really not sure about windows 98 limitations about amount of drives, but i dont think it's problem. (im using both win xp and win me with about 10 drives on both, most are emulated cd images). is there some other version of windows98 drivers for this mp3 player?
 
and how come you are still using windows 98?
start using xp, is faster and faaar more stable.

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From: MSN NicknameCarrotLiberationFront²Sent: 1/15/2005 1:23 AM
As you already know Stu, Windows is supposed to 'see' the MP3 player as another hard drive, some (digital camera) memory card readers have similar problems with Windows 98 SE. It should automatically assign a drive letter when it is plugged in, after the appropriate drivers are installed.
 
Windows update site used to provide a patch for this problem. May take a while to search, but you could try
 
 
 
either way, plug the player in, switch it on then go to windows update (if they still offer support)
 
If all this fails try http://www.creative.com/support/
 
 

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