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The Ballad of my new mp3 player
[With apologies to Paul Henning]

Come and listen to a story about a geek called me,
Bought an mp3 player, happy as could be
Then I plugged it in, and much to my surprise
An error then appeared, right before my eyes.

Disk, that is, controller error, \Device\Harddisk5\D.

Well the first thing you know I'd called the vendor up
We tried a lot of things, but nothing really stuck
I booted into safe mode and then what did I see
My player worked just great, what could the problem be.

USB, that is.
Ports, peripherals.

The Device Conflict!

Well now its time to say good-bye to me and all my luck.
I figured out the problem, my backup program sucks.
It tried to seize control of all my ports and drives
And so I shut it off, and my player is alive!

1 gig, that is. Set a spell. Load up some music. Y'all come back now, 
y'hear?

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After 12 days of working with both Creative and HP tech support (both 
excellent, btw), and everyone scratching their heads, I discovered the 
reason why every system I tried it on - except for my HP Pavilion AMD 
3400+, XP Pro SP 2, up-to-date-on-patches and BIOS - had no problem with 
my 1 GB player.   Plus, all my USB ports work just fine with my external 
hard drive, floppy drive and Compact Flash reader.  

So, just in case anyone else experiences something like this:  my system 
would assign the player a drive number, appear to open the drive - all 
of this taking a very long time - but if I tried to open any files on 
the player, I'd get the error (in this case, I was trying to open a test 
text file with notepad): "Can not open the j:\test.txt file.  Make sure 
a disk is in the drive you specified".

Finally figured out it was Bounceback Express, the backup utilty that 
came with my external hard drive.  Once I disabled its background 
launcher, all was well.  So, if anyone is having any odd problems like 
this, make sure you don't have anything that is looking for USB devices 
running in background.
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