Copying Data directly from your Zune October 9, 2007 at 12:38 pm
UPDATE: With the new 2.3 Firmware this no longer works.
So I have started using my Zune again because I have been traveling more lately and I needed to re-setup my Zune to add a few movies and such so I wanted to copy everything off my Zune. I had set it up to be able to direct connect in windows but for the life of me I could not remember how. So after a few minutes of googleing i came upon Phaleux.com that gave me just the advice I needed.
- 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 here 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.
- Hopefully at this point you can open up “My Computer” and browse your device, though it does NOT show up as a drive letter.
This does work in Vista, I just tried it.
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