Not Yet Rated Zune and Windows XP 64 bit Pro

#  Jun 23, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Join Date: Jun 23, 2008 Post Count: 1   Firia User Options View All Posts By Firia View Firia's Stats     So, I'm one of the people that wants to make use of more than 2 gigs of ram, among other things, but doesn't want to go to Vista. I have Windows XP 64 bit Professional. I love XP, so I figure, this is all good in the hood, right? Wrong. I bought a Zune 80 gig, and thought, mistakenly, that Microsoft would surely support their own operating system. As it happens to be, Zune software is NOT compatable with XP 64 bit Pro. Does anyone know of anything that I can use to bludgen microsoft... er, I mean, DO to get Zune to work on my OS? I tried doing the hack trick, that requires I install it on (someone elses) another XP 32 bit machine, but nothing I could do would get that to work. I kept getting messages telling me I needed to restart after setup. (I did, several times, and no dice.) It'd be so much easier if Microsoft would just support their own OS like a good little super-corperation.

#  Jul 07, 2008 at 10:20 PM

Join Date: Jul 07, 2008 Post Count: 1   Millen1on User Options View All Posts By Millen1on View Millen1on's Stats     I am in the same boat as you, have you figured out what to do yet? did you get the hack to work finally?

#  Oct 17, 2008 at 6:24 AM

Join Date: Oct 17, 2008 Post Count: 2   sowsen01 User Options View All Posts By sowsen01 View sowsen01's Stats     I just bought a Zune 120 and fell into this problem too. psouza4, I sent you an e-mail asking for the install pkg. I would gladly try this out for you because it seems as well that i have no luck in finding any help for getting a program for my os. Thank you!

#  Oct 17, 2008 at 8:24 AM

Join Date: Oct 17, 2008 Post Count: 2   sowsen01 User Options View All Posts By sowsen01 View sowsen01's Stats     btw , if anyone else has any other methods please feel free to share them. They would be most helpful!

#  Oct 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM

Join Date: Oct 25, 2008 Post Count: 2   christopholofigus User Options View All Posts By christopholofigus View christopholofigus's Stats     Quote: Originally Posted by psouza4 I've got this to work.  Zune 3.0.352.0 released 9/16/2008 on Windows XP Professional x64.  There's several lengthy guides floating around the internet.  After digging through them, I've got enough pieced together to reliably install Zune 3.0 on an XP x64 system. I've developed an install package that installs the necessary files, registers the right DLLs, installs the device driver, adds registry information, etc. but it's about 90 MB so before I go put it out on the internet, I'm looking for some guinea pigs to test it for me. E-mail me at psouza4@yahoo.com if you'd like a copy.  No guarantees it will work or that I'll send it to you (I'm a little concerned I'll get flooded here).  If it's a success, I'll post again with a download link. Cheers! OK, I just emailed you and joined the site today (see how you are increasing members?).  I hope that this allows me to use my Zune now.  I did install the Zune 3.0 x86 software on a VM on this box (my x64 XP box) and was able to install the XP x86 and the regular software and connect to it that way, but what a pain.  I would rather run it natively.  I'll PM you as well psouza4.

#  Oct 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM

Join Date: Oct 25, 2008 Post Count: 2   christopholofigus User Options View All Posts By christopholofigus View christopholofigus's Stats     Ok, i'm currently downloading psouza4's zune3.0 repack.  I'll let everyone know how it goes.

#  Jan 06, 2009 at 7:18 PM

Join Date: Jan 06, 2009 Post Count: 1   Mr_TFE User Options View All Posts By Mr_TFE View Mr_TFE's Stats     It would seem as though I'm in the same boat as most of you guys.. I'm running Windows XP Pro x64 and I've tried all sorts of patches and walkthroughs to get it to install, but I still end up with a message saying "Zune has encountered a problem and needs to close, so sowwie" (as opposed to the message saying that my OS wasn't supported, which I would get before all of the patches). I will contact psouza4 through e-mail, then, I suppose.

#  Mar 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM

Join Date: Feb 19, 2009 Post Count: 1   NTCat7 User Options View All Posts By NTCat7 View NTCat7's Stats     Has anyone found this driver? ZuneUsbCOnnection.dll I am running Windows Home XP and BEFORE I upgraded to Zune 3, the only complaint I had was about the awkwardness of the software. Now I can get Zune recognized by my PC, but always get the error of a missing driver (see above) have tried all the fixes I can find, including switching out the USB port it's plugged in to, but I STILL am getting the error message about the .dll file. My Zune is not even a year old yet and it's too small to be used for a paper weight, and I would REALLY REALLY like to use it. Any ideas, short of trying to even find an MS support phone? thank you in advance,