| Author | Message | ||
     Stefan Fleischmann |
Thomas Pabst explains in great detail how to equip Creative's Nomad MP3 jukebox with a larger hard drive. He uses WinHex to copy important start sectors from the original jukebox drive to the new one. | ||
| BAGLEIR SÁNCHEZ GUILLÉN (Bagleir) |
YOU ARE ALL OF YOU A REAL GOOD PEOPLE!!! | ||
| Ignacio |
I've read everything I found about how to Upgrade my Nomad (D.A.P.) Jukebox. Each time I follow the explanations, I find that I've got a 6 GB disk instead of a 20 GB, so there isn't free space at all. I make a Disk Image from my old 6 GB disk in local disk C (first 65536 sectors), later I Clone Disk, 65536 sectors to copy in the new 20 GB disk, and the new disk works perfectly in my Nomad, but I only have 6 GB of space. So I'm making the same images that I had, but it doesn't read the rest. Nomad works fine, but I need those 14 GB more! I've made more than 6 images, I don't know if I should copy (make Image) the entire 20 GB disk and not only the first 65536 sectors, or what else can I do? PLEASE, CAN SOMEONE HELP? Thanks in advance. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Did you select the physical disk as the source? You mention "local disk C". You must not select a logical drive as the source. Likewise, the destination must be a physical disk, too. | ||
| Tal Fuhrer |
Hi, I've been unable to clone from the Nomad Jukebox original 6GB disk. The Disk is not formatted with known file system (FAT, etc...). It's 9.5mm disk, which has been connected to my PC via USB port. I Using winhex I can only see the disk as a logical disk (removable media), not as a physical disk. When trying to clone first 65536 sectors (or edit disk) I get Error. I've tested the geometry configuration with other disk 9.5mm (this time win98 formatted) and it worked fine. For unknown reason (for me at least) winhex cann't reach this 6GB disk. please help. Thanks, Tal Fuhrer | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
If you can't see your 6 GB disk as a physical hard disk, please try with a different kind of connection or on a different computer. And please note only the official full version allows writing disk sectors (and thus cloning). | ||
| Terrordine (Terrordine) |
I used the following to upgrade my 6GB DAP Jukebox to 30GB :-- Beware: Never connect/disconnect IDE or hard disk power cables while your PC is turned on, any attempt to do so may corrupt your hard disks or permanently damage your hardware. Requirements: 1. A fully licensed version of WinHex installed, which can read/write 65536 of raw physical disk sectors to/from an image file. 2. A mother board with 2 IDE connectors, each supporting 2 IDE/ATAPI devices and with a BIOS which supports huge hard disks. A RAID IDE connnector (as found on an IWill KK266-R) will _not_ work e.g. 3. No IDE devices on IDE connector 2 and IDE channel 2 Master enabled in BIOS. You will probably need to temporarily disconnect your CDROM/DVD drive. 4. At least 32MB of free hard disk space, lots more if want to backup you MP3's (if so, download JBProtect too). 5. A free PSU power connector e.g. from your CDROM drive. 6. This cable or equivalent: Supplier: http://www.dabs.com Manufacturer : GENERIC Product : 3.5" TO 2.5" HDD Adaptor cable Quicklinx : WDTWS * There is a drive power connector on the 40 Way (3.5") end. 7. A massive new 2.5" hard disk e.g. Supplier: http://www.dabs.com Manufacturer : FUJITSU Product : MHN 30.0GB UDMA100 Quicklinx : 10Y9WS See these articles on how to do it: http://www4.tomshardware.com/consumer/00q4/001110/mp3-13.html http://www.nomadness.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=8 http://www.nomadness.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=16 See here for old firmware, etc: http://www.nomadness.net/download.php?op=viewsdownload&sid=1 | ||
| Marco Reyes |
I wish to upgrade my Nomad Jukebox from the 6 gig to a 20 gig. I know that I need to clone the first 65536 of the old disk. Unfortunatly, my original HD is dead. Does anyone know where I may be able to download this 65536 of the original disk so that I can use it? | ||
| Christo Du Preez |
I have exactly the same problem, no iamge! I downloaded an image from http://nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=49 Please let me know if it works. Enjoy! | ||
| Anonymous |
Upgrade your Nomad MP3 Jukebox to 20 GB or more... http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/00q4/001110/index.html Its an old link but it still works... just click around a bit ;-) | ||
| Terrordine (Terrordine) |
I recommend you avoid Fujitsu 2.5" HD's, they don't take abuse well, their actual power-off shock resistance is crap. My Nomad Jukebox was in Creatives padded leather cover when it fell 1.5 metres, afterwards the 30GB MHN2300AT had seeking problems and when I finally persuaded it to seek it had loads of groups of bad sectors on one of the four surfaces (i.e. a bad head), bummer! Better go with IBM or other quality manufacturer, never with Fujitsu, it's a false economy! WinHex wasn't much help either, it was hopeless with lots of bad sectors, it has no bad sector list support, so was too damn slow. | ||
| humaid |
With regards to your problem of not being able to ustilize the remaning 14 GB and only being able to see the 6 GB space, I want to inform you that the the solution to recover the remaining 14GB is very easy..but you will lose all the data on your juke box so when you restart your nomad juke box "if the firmware is piror to 2.56 then when you see the word "loading" press and hold "stop" +"play", but if the firmware is 2.56 or a bove then when you see the word loading press and hold the follwing button "fax" + "down" + "the middle display button" which is above the play button. By doing so you will get to the disk menu, chose format ..and then you will be able to recover the remaining space  I hope this help thanks and best regards | ||
| Christoph Wesselburg |
My problem is WINHEX! I use it for creating the image file of my 6 GB. -> OK! But: I am not able to write back the image-file to the new disk. Eyerytime I try to do so there is an error: An error occured while writing to harddisk 2. How did You do it. At the moment I work under XP as Admin under winhex 9.62. It's an Fujitsu-Drive 20GB. I even tried a second adapter, in order to copie directly --> Nope! Plesae help me! Even direct under wesselburg@onestop.de Thank You! | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
You cannot write to a disk with the evaluation version of WinHex. You would need to pay for the full version. | ||
| Thomas Lange |
Hey, what are you doing??? You might not want to hear it, but there's no need to use any tool (like WinHex, Norton Ghost, etc.) Just plug an empty or windows partitioned (no matter) harddrive into your player, enter the Rescue Mode, do a "format all", and off there you go with a perfectly prepared Harddrive. greets Tom | ||
| Thomas Lange |
if it is just to get over your mp3's, copy it back on your computer and then back later on with firewire it is by far quicker (and easier) to transfer your stuff, and even with usb it's worth a think with your 6Gig drive and besides no jukebox will have problems with winhex-created partition headers later on when your drive gets full. (a partition-header, especially when it's compressed/encrypted, is not the same on a 6Gig and on a maybe 30Gig drive!) (to enter rescue mode press STOP while resetting/repack batteries and on creative screen release STOP and press PLAY quickly, then release it again) regards Tom | ||
| Thomas Lange |
Sorry, the above rescue mode is for jukebox 3, but such a rescue mode is existent on any creative hd-based mp3-player. so check your user-guide, the pdf's on the cd, or creative's knowledge-base for further info BUT BETTER FORMAT IT WITH YOUR MP3-HARDWARE !!! so long Tom | ||
| mike b |
I wish also wish to uprade my Nomad Jukebox from the 6 gig to a 20 gig. I know that I need to clone the first 65536 of the old disk. Unfortunatly, my original HD is dead. Does anyone know where I may be able to download this 65536 of the original disk so that I can use it? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Did you read the posting above from November 18, 2002? | ||
| Gantt Reagan (Reagan) |
I used the image file from nomadness.net above on a 40GB drive and it works great. It's the 2.56 firmware so the diagnostic mode is EAX+Middle+Down instead of the original. I think there is a program that protects existing files during format if you image the entire old drive but I didn't mess with it. 6GB isn't worth the hassle but I will probably do that when I upgrade to 60GB; over 24hrs to copy 40GB files with USB1 but it still boots in less than 20sec after the first time. I also used an external USB/Firewire 2.5" enclosure instead of an internal adapter which works just as well with Winhex. | ||
| Kevin Andras |
I just put an IBM 40 GB drive in my Jukebox. I tried to load the OS in rescue mode, but all I could get was the error message "Cannot find OS". So I ran Bootcode, which is supposed to rescue a jukebox with this error message. Then I got another critical error: "Must reload OS". At that point I tried uploading OS version 4.00. But the computer wouldn't recognize that the Nomad was hooked up. Using Norton Ghost, I did a full copy of the original drive to my desktop HD. Then I copied that image to the new IBM disk, and now the JB works fine. Has anyone figured out how to access more than 6 GB, without a full format? I'd like to keep my music on the drive. Another question: How can I reformat my old 6 GB drive so it will be recognized by Windows? Now, I can see it in the BIOS and the Device Manager, but Windows Explorer nor DOS recognize it. Thanks, Kevin | ||
| John Neurauter |
Just put a 30 GB Fujitsu in my Nomad Jukebox to replace the 6GB drive that was in there. I got the image copied to the new drive and started it up. Held down eax+down_arrow+center_LCD_button and got to the disk utils screen. I chose format, then format again. Now I have a screen that reads "ALL FILES AND DATA WILL BE DELETED! ARE YOU SURE?" with CANCEL and FORMAT being my options for the LCD buttons. I pressed the FORMAT (i.e. right side LCD button) to format but there is no change on the display. Is this right? And how long do you think it will take to format the 30 GB drive? | ||
| Sundarraj Kaushik |
The Creative Jukebox 3 that I have is stuck on the rescue mode perpetually. Does anybody know how to check what is wrong? | ||
| Kris1 (Kris1) |
How long did it take to format the 20GB drive ina Jukebox C upgrade? I have been waiting here for 2 hours with a blank backlit screen. Am I missing something? A 20GB drive usually takes about 30-40 mins tops to format. | ||
| Anonymous |
Ive replaced my HDD and copied the famous sectors. But I cant get into the format drive menu. Despite trying both - holding down Start-Stop at boot and - holding down EAX, The middle display button and the down arrow Nothing works. It goes on to "preparing library" and stays there...i.e. no longer reacts. Anyone tried this and found a fix ? Would appreciate some help. | ||
| Jondoe (Jondoe) |
I have the Nomad Jukebox. I dropped the unit and destroyed the hard drive. I bought a 10gb replacement drive but i cannot get the image from the old hard drive. I dont have a full version of Win hex. When I boot up the Jukebox I recieve the message: CRITICAL ERROR MUST RELOAD OS. The boot flasher does not detect the Jukebox. I cannot format my jukebox by holding the 3 buttons. I cannot upgrade a firmware to my jukebox. I have the adapter to connect my hard drive to ide cable. Can I use another program to format the Hard drive in windows?(Norton Ghost, etc..) What can I do to format and use 10 gb hd? | ||
| George Grau |
I have an original 6gb nomad which I am trying to upgrade to 80gb. I have copied the image to the drive. I have put it back into the jukebox and am trying to format it. Unfortunately, I have been waiting for 6 hours now, and am still waiting for it to finish. How long should it take to format? I am assuming the nomad must be hung. Please help. | ||
| will mowson |
I just acquired an old 6gig JB from a friend with the intent to use the HDD to upgrade the 3.1gig drive in my laptop...everything went well for the laptop, but i'd like to wire up a laptop DVD-ROM to the electronics. Interesting theory, i'd need a bootable copy of the OS on every DVD i burn, however. Unfortunately, im kinda of dumb, and i scraped the 6gig disk without backing anything up...so i need a copy of the OS. any ideas? | ||
| Paris |
i own a jukebox 2 10gb and i want to upgrade to a 20gb i use ghost 2003 but i cant select the original drive as source ....maybe because it is shown as an empty hdd .What can i do to image the original disk ? | ||
| Steve Reiff |
I want to upgrade my Nomad 6G to 30 or 40 G do you know where I can buy one for Nomad that is pre-formatted and latest software for Nomad loaded too? | ||
| stan |
Did anybody solve the problem, when jukebox goes on to "preparing library" and stays there? I' ve tried the format menu, but I get no reaction after message "ALL FILES AND DATA WILL...". Thanks in advance. | ||
| Anonymous |
I have the same problem with "preparing library" hang. When I have tried to copy the first 65536 sectors I get bad sector (prolly hdd has physical problems). Now I am trying to get an image of the OS and write it on another HDD. I haven't tried the Format thing, but if OS cannot load completely, I guess it's kind of useless. | ||
| Anonymous |
I tried to upgrade my Creative Jukebox from 6GB to 20GB using all the methods described here. Including Tom's Hardware article. 1. Clone the first 65536 sectors of my old drive to my new drive. 2. Clone my new drive with the image provided by nomadness.net. 3. Clone my entire 6GB to 20GB. But everytime after doing all the above, I keep getting this "Must Reload OS" message for all the above procedure. I am wondering if there is a problem with my WinHex setting. When I open the image file I realized that on the left status information, my mode is set to "TEXT". Is this the problem? When cloning physical drive like Jukebox, should I change it to "HEXADECIMAL" or "BINARY"? If this is the reason, how do I change it? Where is the OS stored in the Jukebox hardrive? Been trying all kinds of things for past few days now and have had little sleep trying various methods described above. I have the personal edition of WinHex. Any info is greatly appreciated. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> I am wondering if there is a problem with my WinHex setting. No, when you open the image file and the edit mode is text, that merely means that the blinking cursor is in the ASCII text part of the window. You could click anywhere in the hexadecimal part, then it will be "hexadecimal". This is absolutely not related to cloning or imaging. When cloning, all data will be copied 100% exactly and treated appropriately as binary data. | ||
| Steve Farmer |
Hi. Follow the instructions at http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=21 and you will up and running in no time. Steve. | ||
| Marco Vigueras |
My hdd failed and I'm wondering what is the best hard drive for the jb. I want 40 or 60 gigs... are some more durable than others? I have the Nomad jukebox 20GB Thanks in advance. | ||
| Anthony K Mugambi (Amugambi) |
I have a Nomad Jukebox Zen with 20GB hard disk, but the player displays "Hardware Problem". Efforts to reboot/rescue have failed completely. Now the Zen can not even start... It is just blank. I had not backed up my music, and I would be very greatful if anyone could help me retrieve my music from the hard disk | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Maybe when you attach the hard disk to your computer as a secondary disk you can recover your files with Davory or WinHex. | ||
| Jim |
I upgraded my Jukebox 1 to a 20GB IBM-DJSA-220, and everything went smoothly at first. However, when trying to populate it with music files, it seems to overheat. Every 70 - 90 files transferred, the disk starts to grind, and the transfers fail (player not responding). If I put the player in the freezer for 5 minutes, I can get another 70 - 90 files transferred before it fails again. Has anyone else had this problem? What do you do about the excessive heat? | ||
| Anonymous |
Deceived by a misleading ad, I bought a non-working and un-returnable jokebox from e-bay (didn't know it's unreturnable till I got the product). The error message is 'could not detect HDD'. Any idea about how to fix it? Thanks! | ||
| Anonymous |
Hi, I have tried upgrading my Jukebox from the 6 Gig to a 30 Gig Fujitsu drive. I have followed the procedure as described in "How to upgrade the Hard drive - *The easy way*", but without success. The player diplays "Critical Error: Must Reload OS". The firmware updater/installer runs without any error, but the player always returns to the "Must Reload OS" screen. I am also unable to get into the maintenance menu... Any suggestions what to try next ? | ||
| Chip |
I also get this error message 'could not detect HDD'. Any idea about how to fix it? Thanks! | ||
| Dave Hall (Beaver) |
Hi, I've also tried upgrading my Jukebox from 6 Gig to a 30 Gig Fujitsu MHT2030AT, without any luck. I've tried the method described in "How to upgrade the Hard Drive - *The easy way*", used Winhex to write the first 65536 sector and Ghost to clone the whole disk, all without any luck. I get all the same symptoms as Anonymous above on 9th October. Has anybody got any suggestions what to try next? | ||
| sammy0903 |
I am encountering the same problem with My NOMAD device. I have Flushed the boot disk and Installed latest drivers for firmware V4.01 and I have 20gig hd . any idea anyone why it lock on preparing Library. I appreciate your help on this Sam | ||
| krystal |
i recently dropped mine. So when i went to restart it. Up came the screen with "Rescue Mode v1.13" and has 4 steps to follow. Well when I get to step 2 and 3 once I go them it says "harddisk problem". Well what does any of that mean. Do I have to get a new nomad or what ? | ||
| Diego Duque |
Hey guys, don't waste your time with other stuff - this is the good one - easy, and works great: Steve Farmer wrote: Hi. Follow the instructions at http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=21 and you will up and running in no time. Steve. | ||
| Josu |
Ive replaced my HDD and copied the famous sectors. But I cant get into the format drive menu. Despite trying both - holding down Start-Stop at boot and - holding down EAX, The middle display button and the down arrow Nothing works. It goes on to "preparing library" and stays there...i.e. no longer reacts. Anyone tried this and found a fix ? Would appreciate some help. | ||
| mia harmon (Miaharmon114) |
I have a nomad jukebox with a 10 GB hard drive. I purchased it from e-bay and it has worked for about 2 months. today it made a grinding/clicking noise in the middle of a song and turned off. when I tried to reboot it said critical error: cannot detect hdd. I see that others have posted this question but I do not see an answer. Any assistance would be appreciated. The back where the batteries are located was very hot as well, I am not sure if that played a role in the malfunctioning of the player. | ||
| Konstantin Krinitsky (Skat) |
Please Help me!!!!!!!!!!! I have not OS for Nomad Juke Box. My HDD is broken. Please e-mail me!!!!!!! Thank you. | ||
| Anonymous |
I replaced my 6.4gb hdd with a 40gb, but when the battery is down to about 50-65%, the hdd have a hard time powering up. Is there a fix for this? | ||
| Anonymous |
Hi, My 20GB HD had bad clusters from 20512 to 20600 and my nomad do not respond to the format mode (It hungs). Is winHex able to : 1) delete all the drive. 2) fix the bad clusters not to be used again so then I´d be able use again my HD in the Nomad loading the firmware Thanks | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Bad clusters should be specially marked by the operating system when formatting the partition. WinHex cannot do that automatically. | ||
| FRNND |
Also, I need to create a partition in my hard disk, then format it and finally delete the partition. will I get an empty hard disk with the bad clusters marked? Thanks | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Clusters are marked as bad in the file system data structures inside a partition. If you delete a partition, these file system data structures are deleted as well, the clusters are no longer defined by the file system (in a sense, they do not exist any more), and thus they are no longer marked as bad either. | ||
| Anonymous |
So, even if a hard drive has too many bad sectors within the system/OS area to be used in a Nomad, you could still use the Hard Drive (formatted fat or Fat32 so the sectors are marked as bad) in a portable case as a handy USB storage device..:-) | ||
| Anonymous |
in the newest firmware, 4.01 for the nomad jukebox/c, there are options in the settings menu to set the hard drive spindown and 1-2 other hard drive settings. i have a question though. what specs does the hard drive have to meet, RPM, size, cache wise? i know it has to be 9.5mm | ||
| Dave |
http://nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=49 downloads fine, but it is not the first 65536 sectors and won't work for me  it gets to the Loading Library part but just sits there forever. | ||
| DarthMathius |
I have a Nomad Jukebox 2. My HD crashed, so I replaced the 20HD by a 40HD. Just had to format it and "update the firmware"...Didnt need anything more. Unfortunatelly i lost all that classical music that came with the jukebox. ( the original hd is really lost...trust me!) Does someone know where to get them? (i mean: exactly the same music) | ||
| Mike |
Hi, I need a Nomad Jukebox drive image for my new hd. The old one died. The link above does not work. I was hoping that someone had it saved. | ||
| Ron Brown (Ronbotek) |
Anyone know where I can get a copy of the Creative BootCode Flasher? Can't download it from nomadness.net. THe link is there, but nothing downloads. Must be a server problem. | ||
| lednaes |
I tried updating my Nomad Zen to the newest firmware version, and the updater crashed in mid upgrade. So now when I boot up my player it says "Firmware Problem" and when I try to re-install the firmware, it always fails. I can get to the recovery menu, but nothing past that. If there was any way that anyone could help me fix this problem, I would appreciate it. | ||
| Anuj Garg |
I am trying to upgrade my Nomad Jukebox 1. Format Requested. ARE YOU SURE. Continue Cancel I choose contine, and the next screen comes up ALL FILES AND DATA WILL BE DELETED! ARE U SURE? CANCEL --- FORMAT! Now if I choose Format, (or cancel for that matter) it does not proceed. The screen remains hung. I am using Hitachi Travelstar HTS424040M9AT00 40gb 4200rpm. More information about the drive (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/4k40/4k40.htm) I have tried cloning the 65536 sectors from my original Nomad 6gb. Also tried the image file from nomadness.net I am using latest firmware (non-beta) Also If I don't enter the maintenance, then it just hangs at "Preparing Library" Please e-mail me if you have a fix for the above problem. Thanks, Anuj Garg | ||
| Anuj Garg |
Hey, I have found a solution to the above problem. (Thanks to Mr. David Dahl) E-mail me if you want the solution. Thanks, Anuj | ||
| Anonymous |
Same problem as above. Have emailed you for advice. | ||
| Anonymous |
Solved it now....did a full NTFS format with windows and then put it in the jukebox...works a treat. | ||
| Anonymous |
Oh and only use the firmware downloaded from Creative....all the "enthusiasts" sites provided firmware which didn't work in my experience. | ||
| Stu |
My old 6GB drive don't work no more, so I've bought a new 60GB FUJITSU drive. I've followed all the instructions here to upgrade the jukebox, including: - Zero filling drive - Running bootcode updater - Running firmware - Copying 8mb image to start of disk using Winhex - Copying approx 40mb image to start of disk using Winhex But whatever I do it still won't go to the disk utils menu when I hold down the buttons, it just stays on 'must reload os'. What else can I do to make this work? | ||
| Jason |
I bought a kit off Ebay, which is basically the Creative Jukebox minus hard drive, so I also bought a 60GB (Hitachi) drive. Originally installed firmware 2.94 from the CD, but got the 'Preparing Library' problem, so zero filled the drive, reformatted it (NTFS) and reinstalled. Now I have the Critical Error Load OS screen, which I'd expect. However, whenever I connect the player up to install the firmware, whether it's 2.94 from the CD, or 3.3/4.01 from downloads, I get the following message: Your player is not connected, please connect the player and restart the application. I know the player is connected, because the PC (which is running XP by the way) recognises that *something* has been plugged into the USB port, plus it installed 2.94 from the CD before, so I'm somewhat mystified. Any ideas? | ||
| Jason |
OK, I think the above might be down to my laptop, as I tried the desktop and it recognises the player. However, I still get the 'Preparing Library' problem with 2.94, 'Critical Error Load OS' with 3.3 and it hangs halfway through boot up with 4.01 (with zero fills and reformats for the drive in between). The only thing I haven't tried is copying the 8MB image mentioned above to the start of the disk - will this replicate the firmware or do I need to do this then install the firmware (which version?)? | ||
| Anonymous |
Hello People, I was in the same problem as most of the people here. I had a hard drive that died in my Nomad Jukebox 20GB. So I started fiddling with the Nomad and a backup hard drive that I had lying around the house. I found the easiest way to upgrade the nomad was; Step 1: Install Hard Drive In Nomad Player Step 2: Use Bootloader (Found on Nomadness) to rid myself of the "Could Not Load OS" Screen Step 3: Then I find myself facing the screen "Reload the OS" Step 4: Use the firmware update (I used 2.98), to get a newer OS installed. Step 5: Hold down the maintenance keys. (EAX, Middle Softkey, and Down Arrow) Step 6: Format Hard-drive using the format fuction in the maintenance menu. Step 7: Enjoy a working nomad jukebox without having to use Winhex, Norton Ghost or anything else like that. Step 8: If you need help you can email me at u0mxq "at" unb.ca Justin | ||
| Juan Manuel Ciriaco Hdez (Darkside) |
Please Help me!!!!!!!!!!! I have not OS for Nomad Juke Box. My HDD is broken. Please e-mail me!!!!!!! Thank you. Nomad Jukebox 20gb | ||
| Anonymous |
hi justin, can you pls. send me the bootloader and firmware to my email: shadowblastertm@yahoo.com, thanks in advance. | ||
| SYL |
I DID IT...SO EASY.. NO NEED FOR WINHEX (WHICH IS COOL BY THE WAY)... I'VE JUST UPGRADED MY NOMAD JUKEBOX 20GB (D.A.P) WITH A TOSHIBA 40GB HARD DRIVE. I JUST PLUGGED THE H.D. INTO THE NOMAD...DOWNLOADED FIRMWARE 4.1 (FROM WWW.NOMADWORLD.COM) AND EXECUTED IT. AND THAT WAS IT!!!!. BY THE WAY THE 40GB WAS MY LAPTOP H.D....WITH 4 NTFS PARTITIONS AND THERE WASN'T ANY PROBLEM....THEN WITH THAT FIRMWARE I TURNED IT ON...AND AS SOON AS THE "LOADING MSG" APPEARED I PRESSED "LIB + EAX" UNTIL THE UTILITIES MENU CAME UPON. THEN I FORMATED AND I WORKED. ANY DOUBT..JUST WRITE ME. | ||
| kei g |
hi there! i'm having a problem with my nomad jukebox . i'm not really sure what happened, but when i turned it on this morning, it always hangs at the "preparing library" screen. and is there any way to reformat or defrag this? please email me if you have any solutions. thanks a bunch!! | ||
| Aaron K. McBride (Mectec082) |
Hello I just replaced my old broken hard drive with a new 4200 rpm 40gb Fugitsu hard drive, so now I go to turn it on, ok now it says Critical Error Must Reload OS. Now from what I heard theres two ways to format the hard drive, holding the play and stop button and holding eax, middle soft key and the down button (pressing these buttons when loading), they dont do anything it just loads and says Creative (Like it should) and then it says critical error must reload os, I'm currently running Windows XP on my desktop, I do have 2.96 and 4.01 firmware upgrades on my computer, when I go to load these it tells me that I currently have 2.95 on my CNJ and it will load and detect my juke box then it will tell be to restart my jukebox, so I do just that, and guess what...... I'm back to square one......Critical Error Must Reload OS. I'm really bummed out and quite discouraged here. Would someone please help me here, I do work with computers quite often, but as the tree said to the lumberjack.......I'm Stumped!!! :\ Could I get some words of wisdom or ideas that will get my poor Jukebox running again? I would soooo appreciate it!! Thanx.  | ||
| Pedro Vinag |
FOR ALL DISK Upgrades: Just finished the upgrade of the Nomad Jukebox 6gb to a 40GB toshiba disk. I've connected the disk to the PC with a 2 1/2" USB bay to my PC. Then I've formated it with NTFS ( quick Format) Then I've opened the Jukebox subsituted the 6 gb ( btw it's a Fujitsu 6 gb Disk inside) with the new 40 gb Toshiba. Powered on and the message "Cannot find OS" appears. SO after installing the Creative Driver for the jukebox in my XP machine I've connected the Jukebox to the PC and launched the bootloader utility. It didn't work. SO I went to the support website from Creative dOwnloaded the latest Firmware update ( version 2.98 ) http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download2.asp?Product_ID=241&dlcentric=7054&Product_Name=NOMAD+JukeBox&OSName=Windows+XP . Update the Nomad with this and it works. After this you just need to reboot The nomad and when you've got the Loading on the screen press - Eax + middle button + scroll Down to access the Rescue mode and do a format of the disk ( this will ask for three or for confirmations and it will finish when you'll see the Lib list ) To check the available size go to eax + system information- AND you'll be VERY happy ;)) I've done this because all my Mp3 files are on my XP machine ( so now I'll have some Hours of file transfer between the XP and the Nomad...) | ||
| diego gomez (Dieguillojaime) |
hI..- i have a player.. of 2o Gb.. but my HDD is broken..:S so i repplaced it but i haven't found an operative system.m please.. some one mail me with a solution.. im dessesperated.. i cant hear any music.. and i'll have a very long trip soon.. please.. help me. thanks.. diego.. mail me at pepechuy3@hotmail.com | ||
| John Shiverhead |
I have an old Creative Nomad Jukebox 2LX. The other day while transferring files into it, the screen froze on my computer and i was unable to close the playcenter, so i finally just removed the usb from the player. The Jukebox restarted and now seems to have no files. when i go into tracks, artists, albums, genres, it simply displays a back arrow. This player was nearly maxed out ( this may have caused the freeze up while transferring files?). Now under JUKEBOX SETTINGS/JUKEBOX INFORMATION it still says Total Space: 19056MB Free Space: 875 MB Track Count:0 Album Count :0 Playlist Count:0 so the data might still be on there, but how do i get the player to recognize it again? | ||
| Bob Malouga |
Update du Jukebox 3 creative Matériel requis: un adaptateur 2,5 pour monter ce DD sur un PC (boitier externe, cable...) Winhex avec licence. Les étapes: 0. Mettez le plus récent firmware sur le JB3 1. Connecter votre DD original (creative) au PC et avec Winhex > Fichier > Créer une sauvegarde Créer une sauvegarde des premiers secteurs du DD creative sur votre disque dur du PC (de 0 à 16384) 2. Retirer le DD creative et installer sur le PC votre nouveau disque vierge. 3. Formater ce disque en Fat32 4. Le fichier crée par Winhex est auto executable: cliquer dessus et sélectionner pour cible votre nouveau disque nouvellement formaté. 5. Remonter ce DD, ça marche !!! | ||
| dino |
I hawe the 6 gig one can someone help ?? dino23@poczta.fm thx | ||
| Alistair de la cadena (Jaladito) |
I have a creative zen nx 30 gigs ,today the thing is not working at all,when i try to format ALL or reload OS, i get a message harddisk problem , so i can't do much. what should do replace the hard drive for another the same capacity? open my mp3 ,replace the hard drive for another one the same,format with my mp3 and then load the firmware |