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So, I just got a Creative Zen Nano Plus for Christmas. It has a 1 GB harddrive, and it's pretty flippin' sweet, but I'm having some difficulties disconnecting it from my computer.

I've read the instructions that came with it for disconnecting the player. Of course, I know I could just yank the USB cable out, but it's not supposed to work like that, and it doesn't. I tried, sadly. I was supposed to have about 90 folders, and only 50 showed up.

The instruction booklet says that if you are a Windows 98 SE user, open Windows Explorer and right-click Removable Drive, then eject. I've done this a million gazillion times with no gain. It still does the same thing--only 50 or so folders show up.

"If I'm doing everything right and it's still not working," I thought, "maybe there's a corrupt file or virus that's causing it to do this." So I tried to run a sweep on the harddrive. Alas, my Spy Sweeper trial has expired.

So, my question is, what the hell am I doing wrong? Is it a corrupt file? A bad USB cable? Stupidity on my part?

And if it IS possibly a corrupt file, do you know of any programs other than Webroot's Spy Sweeper that I could download to use?

Anyone computer/mp3 player savvy is absolutely welcome to help me out. Good answers appreciated.

Thank you much in advance!

Hmm..... You could try Adaware by Lavasoft. Goto www.lavasoft.com. It's free and it's not a trial. They have a free version and a version that costs. They both work just as well. You might have to search the site to find it. But most likey thats not the problem. It might be a bad USB cable but if it was most likely no folders would show up. Another solution if you might just be out of space on it. If it's only 1 gigabyte and you have about 50 folders full of songs then it might be full. When you enter it in the USB goto 'My computer' and there should be something that reads 'Removable Disk' it might say F or G or anything like that. I'm not a pro at Windows 98. I have 2000, and i work with XP a lot. But just goto the Removable disk and click it once. on the side it should say Free Space: ###. then under it it will say Total Space. if they both have the same number it's full. I hope i was of help.

Timothy
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(Rating: 5) Thank you for your efforts; though, I'm not quite THAT uneducated with computers. The Adaware trial version did not imply that any files were corrupt, nor did it hint at any viruses being present on the disk.

I've tried two USB cables, and both have worked to the same effect.

It's not full--I still have over 100MB left. For some reason, it's just not accepting all of my folders.

If you could help me even further with that newly given information, I would be delighted.
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