Creative Zen Touch drivers - tearing my hair out!

[Guybrush]

So I reinstalled Windows XP and came to setting up my Zen touch so I could transfer songs.

My player has the latest 2.11.01 playforsure firmware.

I dont have the original disc anymore and anyway I suspect the drivers on it would be vastly out of date and possibly incompatible with the firmware it has now. So I downloaded the drivers from the creative site and they seem to install OK.

Plugging the player in on USB, I get the little bubble appear at the bottom saying 'New hardware found : Creative Zen Touch"

Then it tries to install the drivers and the problems begin. It just cant seem to find them and does the 'there was a problem blah blah blah... drivers could not be found blah blah'.

I have tried doing 'install from a specific location' and pointing to various directories where I think they might be, including the 'jukebox 3 drivers' directory the creative installer made, but no joy.

Any ideas?

Is there any way to find out what file it it is actualy looking for so i can search for it?

 

[Ampeg]

I had no end of problems when i tried to use my Zen Vision M without the software that came on disc. Phoned creative and they sent another one out free of charge, obviously wont help in the short term but worth doing.

 

[Guybrush]

Hmmm, after trawling through posts on various message boards and the creative forum, i noticed Windows Media Player 10 was being mentioned a hell of a lot.

Installed WMP 10, plugged the player in and bam... new hardware found creative zen touch... new hardware found MTP device... device is installed and ready to use.

Bizarre.