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I (very) recently got a Zen 32gb. It’s a very badly named device. They should have put another word after it, as it’s very hard to search for on google.
This device uses the MTP protocol for communication. Creative do warn that device needs XP or vista. In work I use windows 2000. There is no driver for win2k for this device.
With a bit of research I managed to hack the device ID’s into an old legacy driver and I am now able to connect to it using Windows Media Player 9. This seems to work and I am now able to watch a few episodes of house I converted yestersay on it.
Here is a driver I put together to get it going under Win2k. They should work for all sizes of the Creative Zen. I got the VID’s and PID’s from the libmtp project. Leave the device disconnected, use the executable, install the driver, restart, plugin the the player. If it is still looking for the driver point it to the .inf incluuded in the zip. It worked for me anyway. It should then should as a media device in WMP9.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
thanks for the driver. It’s official: you rock.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:07 am
If you have any trouble with it,let me know.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Sorry I’m new to this, one question, I’ve downloaded the thing you have there, but what do I do now?? How do I install the driver??
October 21st, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I bought the Zen 16GB secondhand (it hasn’t arrived yet). Can I edit this driver to use that with win2k?
The last line of the ctpdmtp.inf file says
USB\Vid_041e&Pid_4157.DeviceDesc = “Creative 32″
Should I change this to
USB\Vid_041e&Pid_4157.DeviceDesc = “Creative 16″
or maybe
USB\Vid_041e&Pid_4157.DeviceDesc = “Creative Zen”
or doesn’t it matter what it’s called?
- maybe the contents of that name / string just doesn’t matter? Will it just work with the 16GB Zen as it is, even though it says “Zen 32″?