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Posted on Jan 08, 2007 - 10:48pm by John P. in Computing, Dear The Man, Gadgets, Tutorials
After my previous review of the Zen Vision W I had a reader Ask the Man the following question:
Hi,
I just got myself a Zen W last X-mas. I think it’s fantastic as well. I bought the 30gb instead of the 60gb thinking I could probably upgrade the hard drive to a higher capacity eventually.
Do you think it’s possible or know what kind of hard disk format they have in those machines?
Thanks One Man!
No, thank YOU for the question! As far as the answer is concerned, there’s only one way to find out… crack that puppy open!
What you will need to open the device:
The Creative Zen W utilizes a 1.8″ hard drive with the following specs:
Step 1) Remove the battery.
Step 2) There are 6 screws that need to be removed underneath the battery. One is behind a tamper-resistant sticker which, if removed will void your warranty.
In order not to void my own warranty for the purposes of this exploratory surgery I simply used a very sharp pocket knife to gently pry up the sticker so it would be replaceable.
Step 3) Remove the Compact Flash slot screws.
Step 4) Gently pry the back cover off the device. This is the tricky part since you don’t want to break anything. Take your time!
I discovered that the best way seems to be to start on the end with the compact flash slot and begin by squeezing the top of the device together a little to try to release the little plastic hook on the inside. Hopefully the image will make clear what you are trying to get at.
After releasing that hook there will be enough room to use a pocket knife or some other thin flat piece of metal to slip between the cracks and gently leverage the rest of the device apart.
Step 5) Loosen (or remove) the four screws holding the hard drive cover on, then remove the cover.
Step 6) In order to remove the hard drive, peel back the tape covering the ZIF socket and gently unplug it.
Step 7) Take a beer break and admire what you’ve already accomplished!
Now that you’ve got it disassembled you can learn How to Upgrade to a Larger Drive.
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Hello.
I need help. Serious help.
I accidentally dropped my Zen Vision W, and now it only show the Creative title, no animation of a pool or whatsoever, and it quickly shows me a lit black screen. I’ve tried rebooting it, up to no avail, since it only drains the battery and takes a a long while; I’ve tried to reload the firmware after downloading this program from creative’s website, and it didn’t do anything much, since i hadta reboot but it still won’t get fixed. Also, is it possible for me to fix it by myself? Please, please, pleaaaase help me. I love my Zen to pieces and i think it really would just end in pieces if I don’t get it fixed. :(
Thank you so much. Hoping for an answer.
you should boot it into recovery mode by taking out the battery, hold the power switch and put the battery back in while holding the power switch. format all, and then reload firmware. please note you will lose all of your music stored on your zen so you will have to sync it back with your computer once you reload the firmware
i had the same problem like this i did as u suggested booting and reloading firmware it reloads it then restarts but nothing still happen my zen got spiked i think by a massive electrical power surge from a amps i plugged into it so u know what the possible problem could be the only thing on it when i let it start up straight is a plain “litten” screen with nothing on it
I have a 30 gb Zen W and wanted to know if there is anyway to move the music folder to a computer. My hard drive in my computer crashed with all of my music so I am trying to see if I can restore some of that music by moving the music from my zen to the computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
Hi. I just bought the Creative Zen Vision W 60 GB version. Will I be able to install a Toshiba 100 GB harddrive on the 60 GB version ?
I dropped mine…
Now when I turn it on it comes up with Recovery Mode and it says Clean Up, Format All, Reload Firmware or Reboot.
I made it reboot but it changed nothing. And I tried clean up and it said scanning disk…and nothing happened…it stayed that way for 12 hours til i turned it off again.
I tried the others but it says Harddisk problem! and can’t do them
HELPPP also I’ve lost the disk =[
This happened to me too last night! I don’t know what to do. Now I downloaded the firmware and hopefully it will work. I have a 60GB memory and it’s almost FULL. I can’t risk losing all my movies and music cause I don’t have any back ups! Please help…
hi there…
have a problem with my friends creative zen vision w…the player doesnt not start..only showz the blue light next to the power. went to repair it and they told me that the ic had burned i.e, the power ..my friend had put wrong voltage charger which caused the problem..so would like to know what is part no for the ic of the zen vision w as without it i cannot get it repaired..pls help me urgently as i have been searching a solution for this problem…thanks and awaiting ur reply soon!
Hi .i have a same promblem with m zen vision w… don’t know what to do. it only show blue light inside power button but did not start.reply me as soon as posible.thanx in advance.
hi …same problem i m facing with my zen w..don’t know what to do. if you have any sollution .mail me on my id.
Hi this is kinda weird !! my little brother sticked a Nokia charger inside the headset port (since he assumed that it fits there :\) so i had 2 ICs burned inside !! right behind the port (yellow colored) so i had them changed i started my zen !! it worked very well ! i entered the recovery mode (by using the battery thing) formated the hard drive and it formated verywell then erased the old firmware and connected the zen to my pc the upgraded the firmware and the zen rebooted after finish !! but the peoblem is i see the “Creative” logo and the “ZEN” logo when it start my zen but then i see NOTHING only a black screen
what do you think the problem is ?! please help
WTF>>> Can’t used Advanced info/browsing from SD card!?!?!?
Browsing and playing from your memory card
1. In the main menu, select Memory Card.
2. Select Browse.
3. Select a file or folder to begin browsing, OR press to play files automatically.
Note
* As the SD card is accessed as a removable drive, advanced features of the player such as; playlists, searching by artist, album, etc., will not be available. If you would like to use the advanced features of your player, you will need to use your PC to transfer the SD content to your player’s internal memory.
Hi,
I loaded the newest firmware on my zen vision 60 gig and I didn’t have my music backed up and now I have nothing on my player. Is there any way to recover the data? I still have all the songs, but I had gone it and put all the music into genres and spent a long time making sure everything was labeled correctly and now I am back to square one. Thanks!!!
My zen vision no longer will connect to my computer, when i plug it in to the usb port it just turns it on. It wont even charge it that way anymore
My computer wont recognise it. HELP?????
hello there, its written in your post that there is still no upgrade path for the 60g version. do you have one now? i have a 60g version and it stopped working, hard disk problem. can the 100g toshiba fit in the 60g player? thanks.
hi i have a 30gb zen w and the hard disk broke so im planning to get the toshiba 120gb 1.8″ zif hard drive, i wonder if its gonna fit my zen w because the 30gb hard drive is .5mm thick and the 120gb is .8mm thick. is there anyway i could fit that?
Hi, i neeed help :D
i got a creative zen, 30 gig..
i can’t start it, or doing it on, reset won’t help to..
if i plug it on my usb into my computer, there’s a small blue light,
but nothing responds, and it stays on black screen..
im hopeless, hope you can hellp me.. :’(
I have a Creative Zen Vision 30 gb when i plug it into the PC it power swhich flashes blue rapidly when i unplug it and try to open blue light flashes again but nothing happens i tried the recovery mode but noting happened. what should i do next? Sincerely
Ömer KAYA
Hi,
I need help in unplugging the zif socket from the harddisk. Thank you.
Rgds,
Mike
i have a creatiive zen vision m it got tottaly out of charge when i was usin it now wen i plug it into tje laptop only the blue light flashes and nothing happens PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!! AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
Hi,
I’m running into problem disassembling my Zen W 30G. Two of the little screws seem to be stuck. I don’t want to keep trying to aviod stripping the screwhead any further than it has.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.