Thread: Accessing the Zune HDD with an adapter
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Old 06-28-2009, 05:22 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roebeet View Post
tmk, you cannot access the partitions with a ZIF to USB (or SATA) adapter. The partition table is setup in such a way that it is unreadable outside of the Zune firmware. I have tried this myself, with no success.

To answer the power question - it is part of the ribbon cable, itself.
They must have added that restriction with an update. It has been done before by ZunePet: http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=1273.0
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