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Use Your Zune as a Hard Drive
The Zune can be used to store and transfer file formats such as zip files, pdf files and word documents. Want to take your data with you when you travel - Check out this little mod where you can use your Zune as a portable hard drive -no Zune hardware or software changes are required at all.
Here’s the Step-by-Step guide
Important Note: Make sure your Zune is not plugged in and your Zune software isn’t running
- Open up regedit by going to the start menu and selecting “run”.
- Type regedt32 and hit “OK”
- Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Enum\USB\
- Search for “PortableDeviceNameSpace”. This should be contained in the Vid_####&Pid_####\########_-_########_-_########_-_########\Device Parameters within the above …\USB\
- (The ##’s listed above will be numbers and letters specific to your Zune)Change the following values:
- EnableLegacySupport to 1
- PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell to 0
- ShowInShell to 1
- Plug in your Zune, and make sure the Zune Software starts up.
- You can now open My Computer and browse to your Zune; note it is not assigned a drive letter.
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March 5th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
It Dosent Show Up in My computer i double chced the procedure but nuthing… do i have to search for it or something
March 5th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
It Dosent Show Up I My Computer…. Am I Supposed To Search For It Or Something?
May 24th, 2007 at 9:04 am
ya,i did it and it works i like it but it always comes up with 2 icons for it , they both go to it but theres 2 of them, how do i fix this
May 27th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I did it, but then when i want to move it into the storage file it saying that i dont have
premmision to do it.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I did it, but then when i want to move it into the storage file it saying that i dont have
premmision to do it. same thing happend me why>?
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:12 am
Run Zune first b4 accessing,
then u’ll be fine ^^
August 24th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
cant find controlset001, need help
September 13th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
i followed all your steps and i’m getting the same results as everyone else: two icons, no permissions. plus, now i get error messages sometimes when i plug it in…
how do i get permission to drag and drop?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
If you don’t have controlset001 that is fine… make the changes under
CurrentControlSet
Controlset002
Controlset003
Controlset004
That should work.
How to transfer files
======================
You can perform task to delete the files on Zune directly after patching. However, you cannot copy or transfer the files onto Zune directly. If you try to upload or send a file to Zune directly via My Computer or Windows Explorer, you will see this error message dialog: “Cannot Copy File - could not be placed on the device. You do not have permission to create this item.”.
To copy or transfer or upload files to the Zune, you have the use the following trick. Either you sync your files to the Zune by using Zune software, or you can syncing a large file, and half way into the process, shut down the Zune software. In this case, the relationship between PC and Zune player will always stay in ’sync’ mode, and you can now copy or transfer over as much files as you want.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:53 am
when you plug the zune back in open up the zune software AND the task manager (ctrl.alt.delete.) once the task manager is open look for the ZUNE.EXE ((this will be important later on)).
While you have the zune software open synch with anything. In the middle of the synch process go to the task manager and close the ZUNE.EXE. Once this is closed you will still be synched. no drag and drop into the music file. the end.
true story.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
i have done all the steps and i get the same results as everyone else but now i can’t even get my zune to sync to the zune program or wmp either. what do i do to fix my zune so i can sync the rest of my videos……
plz help…..
January 27th, 2008 at 3:29 am
HELL YEAH WORKS FOR ME!!! perfect hack to do at work lol
January 27th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
decided to try this one… Had no luck though. Same problem as Dave, can’t open under my computer. I have the 1st gen 30gig with all the software updates. Anyone have any solid ideas?
March 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
i did it…but it doesn’t appear in “my computer”…can someone help me with that?
March 16th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
so i did the hack and all looks fine except that when i try to take files from the zune to my pc it tells me that either the handle is incorrect or the file is of the wrong type. anyone else with this issue? i have already locked it into synch mode
March 19th, 2008 at 3:42 am
dpes anyone check this board anymore?
April 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I tied this and it works, Yay! BUT! By mistake i had my Zune plugged in, and it worked the same and well.