my laptop is only 20 gb harddrive?

Question

is it powerfull enough to transfer my cds to my creative zen micro mp3, as i am having a problem

Answer 1

I don't believe that transferring songs to your mp3 player has anything to do with your hard disk space. But if you are having issues transferring songs, make sure that:-
- your USB connection or whatever connection you're using isn't faulty. NOTE: If you are using a computer with an older version of USB hardware(the new standard is the 2.0 version), your transfers might be slow.
- the computer you're using recognizes your mp3 player. Sometimes, if the driver for your mp3 player isn't installed (Windows XP automatically updates the drivers for new hardware, if unavailable but I can't be so sure for older versions like windows 98), your music player(e.g. real player, musicmatch, windows media player) won't be able to transfer songs to your device (mp3 player). If this is the case, either download the driver online from the Creative website or install the driver directly to your computer from a drivers CD(usually in the box that the mp3 player came with) or you could just let windows XP(can't be so sure for older versions) install the mp3 player for you automatically using the internet to download the driver.
- the music player you're using can transfer songs to your device. For example, VLC or Core media player might be able to play mp3 or other types of music files but I don't think they can transfer songs to a mp3 player, so I would suggest using a player like Real player, Windows media player or even Musicmatch jukebox to trasnfer songs to your player. But if push comes to shove, you can always use the music player provided by Creative(usually in the CD that comes with the box of the mp3 player) to transfer songs.

Answer 2

You might try downloading the latest software from here.
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/welcome.asp?action=next

You might also try it on another computer to see if you have the same problem.


20 GB Hard Drive
Windows version? Vista, XP , 2000, 98 ?
Laptop make and model?
Processor speed and RAM MB ?
What specifically is the problem?

Answer 3

Yes, your hard drive space (20gb in your case) has nothing to do with it's "powerfulness." That just how muc stuff it can store. Odds are you have a driver (the pogram the computer uses to know how to communicte with your device)installed incorrectly and so it's not working. I would suggest asking a question with the specifics on your problem and we can help you out.

Answer 4

Hard Drives DO have to do with how fast your computer is....generally bigger hard drives give your computer more temporary space it can use for like virtual memory...Also there's the RPM...how fast your computer can search for stuff. =P


Anyway, your computer can probably do it but 20GB will fill up quick if you're using it for music. Just make sure you rip your CDs at like 128kbps so it won't take up a lot of space. =)

Answer 5

yes it is powerful enough. I didn't know you could still get 20GB of hard drive. My laptop has 160 GB and my computer has 300 GB of hard drive. The size of the hard drive has nothing to do with it's power.

Answer 6

your ram and complicatedpersistent length have not got something to do with the workstation slowing down with greater data being placed on it. the only ingredient you could desire to be disturbing approximately is that in case you get close to 1ish Gb of area on the complicatedpersistent then you definately will start up seeing overall performance degraded.

Answer 7

20gb should be fine, ive transfered files on computers with smaller hd's than that. whats the rest of your spec and what problem are you having?

Answer 8

Your HD has nothing to do with power, only storage space. Power concerns your processor, compatibility, connectivity, etcetera...

Answer 9

I don't see why not?? I have a 600MhZ computer and it does everything i need it to....burn movies-cd's-upload-download....just kinda slow....