Sep 20, 2004. The $500 Creative Zen Portable Media Center takes a totally PC-centric approach. It serves primarily as a take-along repository for content from PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. The far more ambitious $550 Archos Pocket Video Recorder AV420 has the brains to handle media that.

Check in the User Guide if your computer does not need specific driver to identify and connect to ARCHOS devices. If you are using Windows ® ME, 2000 or XP, Mac OS 10.2.4 or later, you will not need to install a driver. If you use Windows 98 SE and if the User Guide indicates that your ARCHOS device is not compatible with this OS, you will need to install a driver. Important note: video players with PlaysForSure (TM) logo are pre-configured to be recognized as a 'Windows Device' when connected to your computer. If you do not have Windows ® XP Service Pack 1 or higher AND Windows Media Player 10 installed, then, your computer may ask you to install a driver when you connect it to your player (with USB cable).

In this case, disconnect your ARCHOS player, go to 'System' ARCHOS and change the 'USB' setting to 'HDD'. Now, reconnect your ARCHOS player to your computer. Ethics And World Politics Duncan Bell Pdf File. It is automatically recognized as an external hard drive.

I have just finished installing WinXP on the Archos 9: All in all, the experience under WinXP is soo much better. The Archos 9 is super fast, there's still lots and lots of RAM free, and the CPU only goes up to 80/100% when installing stuff or starting something, the rest of the time it's ~0/2%. The device reacts without delay to any input!

Everything works (WiFi, touchscreen, Archos keyboard.) So much better than Win7. I can only recommend it. You will need: -) a USB-Port Replicator. If you're gonna use an USB-Drive or a CD/DVD-Drive without power cable, I'd suggest an active USB-Replicator (with it's own power cable so it can power the stick/the drive). [I recommend this because I couldn't use USB-Drive AND a keyboard BEFORE entering Windows intself with a passive replicator] -) a Keyboard, since you won't be able to use the Archos On-Screen keyboard during the setup.

-) if you're gonna use the USB-Drive method, another PC/Laptop to prepare the USB-Drive and make it bootable. METHOD I: Using an USB-Drive A)Preparing the USB-Drive (-) Format your USB-Drive with PeToUSB [] (-) and install WinSetupFromUSB (-) Start WinSetupFromUSB, it should detect your USB-Drive and look like this: Where it asks for 'Windows Source', click Browse and select your Drive containing the WinXP CD, you can also copy/paste the whole contents of the WinXP CD into a Folder on your Harddisk and use the folder as source, or you can also use a mounted ISO image of the setup CD. (-) IMPORTANT: Where it says 'Boot.ini adjustments', you're gonna want to change the 'Partition Nr.'

Else you will get a 'Hal.dll file missing' error later during setup, because the setup will try to boot into the wrong partition. [Side note: if you have ERASED the Recovery Partition that was on the Archos out of the Box, and now only have ONE partition, you do not need to change the partition Nr.] (-) Hit Go, let it copy everything on the USB stick, when it's done hit Exit and safely Remove the USB-Drive B)Installing Windows XP (-) When the Archos boots up, hit the [A] (Archos) Key of the device when the Archos logo appears on the Screen - you will enter the BIOS menu. Change the boot order of the device, it should be enough to put USB HDD on top of the Hard Disk, just to be sure I put everything saying USB above the Harddisk. Save, and enter, you should enter the Windows XP setup now.

Crock Pot Bbq Pit Instruction Manual. (-) You will have to boot 3(!) times from the USB stick, the first time choose 'Step 1', the second and third time 'Step 2; for GUI installation and first Boot Up'! The rest of the installation procedure is the same as a normal installation from CD. METHOD II: Using a CD/DVD-Drive (-) When the Archos boots up, hit the [A] (Archos) Key of the device when the Archos logo appears on the Screen - you will enter the BIOS menu.

Change the boot order of the device, it should be enough to put USB HDD on top of the Hard Disk, just to be sure I put everything saying USB above the Harddisk. Save, and enter, you should enter the Windows XP setup now. (-) Follow the instructions, the setup will reboot twice, the second time you should enter the OS, and everything should work fine except WiFi, Audio, Bluetooth, Touchscreen, and the Touch-It Archos Keyboard will be missing - so on we go to installing the drivers! INSTALLING THE WINDOWS XP DRIVERS Download all the (I didn't bother downloading the bios update, then again I got my archos 2 days ago and it's bios is up to date) drivers from thread, and install them. What you have to keep in mind: 1) To install the WiFi drivers, first run the exe, this will extract the files.

Then you need to enter the Device-Manager, right click on the Adapter, choose 'update drivers', and manually (choosing 'Networkadapter' as device type) point it to the 'bcmwl5.info' file in the folder you extracted the files to! When it asks you to choose the model, choose: Broadcom 43224AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter. 2) Installing the touchscreen drivers: Select PS/2, deselect rs232, select to make a 4-point calibration after reboot, install. After reboot calibrate, it should work! All the other drivers should work without any special notices; I have not installed the bluetooth drivers yet while writing this. 3) The link to the audio drivers seems to have changed, I downloaded from Last edited by on Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:36 am, edited 5 times in total. When do you get the 'grub4dos' error?

Concerning the hal.dll error: Did you get it when the device tried to reboot into GUI installation mode? It most likely is an error caused by the boot.ini file (on the usb-drive) did you change the partition number to 2 as I mentioned? If not, just open the boot.ini file on the usb stick, and edit it. Do you have more/less than 2 partitions on your hard disk? Edit: btw by changing partition number to 2 i mean changing the 1 into a 2, not adding an additional boot entry. Regarding grub4dos error to me it sounds like the grub bootloader, which the setup on usb later uses I think.

Maybe corrupt download or corrupt usb? Did you format with PeToUSB? Edit 2: You might also try downloading from another source, I uploaded the program to rapidshare, maybe it got corrupted during upload.

Googling WinToUSB should give many results and download links. Cool, great to hear it worked for you too!

I installed (a Vista skin), &, and everything is still lagfree and pretty fluid. Memory consumption is a bit higher but, still okay. All in all it looks better than standard XP, and is faster than the Win7 Starter was on the Archos 9. Cool, great to hear it worked for you too!

I installed (a Vista skin), &, and everything is still lagfree and pretty fluid. Memory consumption is a bit higher but, still okay. All in all it looks better than standard XP, and is faster than the Win7 Starter was on the Archos 9.

Btw did you get all the drivers to work too? Cheers Ares for the guide, and Plouat for the drivers, XP installed a treat with the guide.

Can't believe how quick the A9 is now with Win 7 removed. I had a couple of minor issues along the way, but all working, issues as follows; 1. During install got a message saying 'cannot copy flash.inf' i just skipped the file, 2. I changed the partion number to '2' during Win XP usb set up as the guide says, but still got the hal.dll issue. I just opened the boot.ini file in notepad and changed the partition number from '2' to '1' That did the job, i would recommend downgrading to XP if your getting tired of the slow speed under Win 7.