Maintenance message on your Zune device: "1: Connect Zune to your PC"

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SYMPTOMS

As you use your Zune device, the device appears to be nonfunctional. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

1
Connect Zune to your PC.

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs then when the Zune device enters a recovery mode and requires that the Zune device software be restored.

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Connect the Zune device to a computer that has the current Zune software installed, and then update the device to the current Zune device software. For more information about how to update the software on a Zune device, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

926770 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926770/ ) How to update your Zune device

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