Broken Zen Touch

[naruto1988]

the player still boots up. it says hard disk problem so i'm guessing the hard drive is dead. i want to just replace the hard drive.

the model number is HTC424020F7AT00 and i looked on the web...i found the hitach datasheet: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/c4k40/c4k40.htm and one seller on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Hitachi-20GB-1-...9QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i was wondering if i could put in this hard drive and it might work: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145101

the zen touch's HDD is ATA-5 and the new notebook HDDs are ATA-6. does this make a difference? should i just buy from the ebay seller? will putting a new HDD into my zen touch make it work?

 

[bobdelt]

You might need to load up the firmware or something onto the hd, the player itself might do it for you. Do a google search, i know there are some forums dedicated to creative mp3 players, i know there are people who upgrade their hard drives with that same player, so you're basically in the same boat as them.