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[hugoadelgado]

ok so i have a 1st gen 30 gig zune whos screen broke,, and its pretty usless with out a screen. It would be cool if i could just use it as an external hard drive. I have found some hacks that change the regestry to "trick" the computer into kinda making the zune into a hardrive ,, but not really,, so what i want is to totally reformat the zune so that it is an external hard drive. I want to earase all traces of Zune programing in it.
anybody have any suggestions?

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

http://lifehacker.com/software/zune/use-your-zune-as-a-portable-hard-drive-217010.php

looks like your reg hack to view the zune in my computer.
then id just experiment with format software to get it into clean NTFS.

Dont see why it wouldnt work.

[hugoadelgado]

thanks for that but, thats the one i tried. The problem there is

1. to actually download and upload things into the zune you have to run the zune software, start syncing a song and then shut down the program while its syncing through Windows task manager.

2. Since its a regestry hack it only works on the computer that you did it on,, so i can't use the "external hard drive" with any other computer.

3. It does show another hardrive in your "my computer" file but, it won't let you reformat it.

so i don't kknow what to do

[Bread]

I don't think you can. I think the ability copy/paste songs onto the player without dealing with proprietary software is one of the most important features for an mp3 player to have. My Creative player lets you do it.