Sony NW-S202F not working in Vista

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Stealthy_Singh

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I just got a free Sony NW-S202F with my sony card pulse points. I installed the sonic stage software and tried to transfer music to the player. However the player won't show up on the computer at all, not even in the sonic stage software. I check the sony website apparently sonic stage 4.3 is compatible with Vista. So I duly download and istall ver 4.3 and try to transfer my songs but same problem. I don't have a seperate driver for the player as supposedly it is installed with the software. Also sony don't provide on on their website. Now when I attach my player Vista is asking for a driver as it can't find one on the update site. I don't have one to give it. I tried installing it direct from the CD but apparently it can't be installed this way, something about an entry of somesort is missing.

Anyone have any ideas what I could do? This is all very annoying.

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1. Click Start, and then right-click My Computer and select Manage.

The Computer Management window for the local computer is displayed. "Computer Management (Local)" is displayed at the root of the console tree.

2. In the console tree, expand Storage and click on Disk Management

3. Right-click on the volume icon next to the partition or logical drive that corresponds to the walkman and click Change Drive Letter and Paths….

If you have several volumes and you don't know which one corresponds with your walkman, you can find out the correct volume by briefly disconnecting and then reconnecting your walkman from the USB port to notice which volume is affected by this operation (it will disappear when the walkman is disconnected and reappear when the walkman is reconnected).

4. Do one of the following:

* If there is no drive letter assigned, click Add, select thedrive letter you want to use, and then click OK.

* To modify the currently assigned drive letter, click the drive letter, click Change, select the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.

Note: when modifying drive letters, you may get one of the following warnings:

1. “Drive Letter is already mapped to a network share or a local path. In order to see the volume after the operation, you must remove the current mapping

2. “Changing the drive letter might cause programs no longer to run.”

In case you get the first warning message (1.) than please click on NO and select a different drive letter. If you get the second warning message (2.) then just click on YES to confirm.

Hope that helps you.

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Stealthy_Singh

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^ Thanks RatherLargeBear. I tried that before Like I said the computer doesn't even recognise that something is connected. It doesn't show up in disk management. It won't show up on the remove hardware in the system tray either. The only indication that it is connected is the system sound you get on connecting a device and dissconnecting it, the player is charging from the USB but no data seems to be passing through. It's not the USB ports that are the problem as they work with other devices.

Any other ideas I could try please?

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ok leave it unplugged for now.

I would suggest you un-install Sonic Stage, then re-install. And restart the PC.

Then reconnect the player.

Try a different USB port if possible, make sure its not connected to a hub.

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