creative zen sleek stuck in recovery mode...???

Question

i did nothing wrong to my mp3 player and it just froze today and i tried to get to the recovery mode and once i was there i did the clean up and the reboot but it didnt do anything. now i cant get it out of the recovery mode and i even tried to format it!!! i dont know what to do i tried everything except reloading the firmware which i dont know if i should do cuz i dont want to mess up my pc and i dont want my mp3 player to freeze after i go through all of that trouble. i have a creative zen sleek 20gb mp3 player.and ideas as to what to do besides buy a new mp3 player (NOT creative brand)????????????

Answer 1

I don't know if this can help you or not. I have a Zen Vision M 30Gb, and do not use any of the software that came with the player, it's awful, so i uninstalled it immediately.

I use WMP 11 beta 1 for sync and windows regular file explorer to manage the folders in the player as it shows up as a drive in MyPC. You know for photos, files and stuff.

I updated to WMP 11 Beta 2 and it created a second library (copy of the original -obviously a bug in the Beta) and it put that second set on the player, so I wound up with 2 copies of each song, so what I did was: first I reset the player using the little hole at the bottom. Then hooked it up via USB and using windows I just manually deleted ALL folders on the Zen. So when it was TOTALLY empty I synched again (with WMP 11 beta 1, to which I reverted, of course), and it synched perfectly and is working just fine.

So I don't know what recovery mode and all you mention is, actually.

Probably won't help, but there, I tried.

I had an iPod video 30Gb before and this Zen player is a LOT better! That I can tell you.

Answer 2

Creative Zen Recovery Mode

Answer 3

Well I have a Creative Zen Touch. Mine did something similar. What I did was let it totally run out of battery. Then recharge it. Then I pressed the power button a it worked! good luck.

Answer 4

iPod's are awsome!