[access-uk] death of a zen stone
- From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:44:59 -0000
Hi all: my stone died over the weekend, however it did turn to my advantage in
the end so read on.
I nodded off listening to it one evening and couldn't get it to re start next
day. assumed that battery had run down while I was snoozing so gave it a
charge but it still didn't respond. the light was showing that the unit was
live but I could get no sound from it. I tried a reset but nothing, and when I
tried to re format the drive I couldn't. the first time I tried I got a windows
error saying windows could not format the drive, nothing else which isn't very
informative, and thereafter whenever I tried to highlight the drive so that I
could right click it windows explorer crashed. the creative lite software
didn't recognise any attached player and the drive appeared in my computer as
'removable drive' not 'zen stone'.
I eventually faced facts and gave up on it. with a long train journey ahead
of me early this week I instantly hit the web looking where to get the best
price for a replacement and much to my delight found that creative have
produced a 2 gig version of the stone which is currently half price in pc world
and currys. so twice the capacity for the same £30 that I payed for the
original.
take care if purchasing, it's not the 2gb zen stone plus which has a screen,
radio and other function that make it difficult to use, what you're looking for
is the straight stone 2gb. it's identical in every respect other than a
sticker on the outside of the box which says "2 gig".
Adrian Higginbotham
Project manager: Learning services
Becta
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994.
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/ <http://www.becta.org.uk/>
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
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