Need specs for Zen Xtra Harddisk

[gkurpasi]

Please help

I'm a Marine, just got back from Iraq, had all pictures taken by entire section over seven month deployment, as well as personal journal and mission logs stored on a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB MP3 player.

Player died in last week of deployment. I'm having trouble finding a data recovery service to help me, and for some reason, no one at Creative seems able to provide me with the make and model of the harddisk in the player.

Does anyone know who manufactures this disk? is it a pcmcia disk?

Please help

Thx

Grady Kurpasi

 

[DaveSimmons]

I believe it is a standard 2.5" laptop hard drive. If the drive itself is OK you could probably place it in a 2.5" external enclosure (about $20 at newegg.com) and read it via USB.

Creative probably used several 40GB drives depending on which was cheapest at the time they were doing a manufacturing run.