help with mp3 player.

[milk]

Hello everyone, I have a creative nomad jukebox ( kind of the older version, it's about as big as a CD player, and it's blue and silver and is 6 gb I'm pretty sure). It has been working up until about 6 months ago , when I lost after I moved. Well, I recently found it in a unopened box, and want to start using it again. The only problem is when I turn it on, it shows the loading screen in the upper left hand corner, then the CREATIVE JUKEBOX graphic screen, and when I hear the harddrive starting up, it shows a message in a box that says " Critical Error, could not detect HDD (harddrive obviously) and then it says "shutting down", and I hear the harddrive shut down. I do not know what is wrong with it. I have all the software, adapter, batteries and everything. It used to work fine, but I do not know what is wrong now. If anyone could help me with this problem, it would be greatly appreciated, as I do not want to throw $300 away by buying a new iPod. Thank you very much for your replies!

Tony

 

[damasta55r]

The hard drive could've been damaged in the move??? I dk, it may be a lost cause

 

[milk]

No i dont' think so, it was at the top, and it was wrapped in bubble wrap and really protected, it's not that, i'm almost 100% sure it didn't get damaged. I just don't know what is wrong with it. Anyone else care to help? Thank you very much for your reply though!

Tony

 

[extendcradle]

It might damaged some chips or the hard drive itself because it was placed in unopened box.

 

[milk]

No! that's not the problem. Well, if it was but it's not, how DO I FIX IT?! DOES ANYONE KNOW!? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP!

THANKS!

Tony

 

[Hacp]

It might be the battery. I know that Lit ion batteries don't like it when they aren't used for a long time.

 

[m3trj]

Is there a method to reset it, like by sticking a paper clip into a small hole or something on it? Try that, and format the hard drive if it's possible.