Magellan Maestro

Sun, 02/15/2009 - 12:45pm

banngtanngo

15 years

I bought a Magellan Maestro 4250 close to a year ago. Somewhere along the way, I lost the receipt of my purchase.

Last month I began to have trouble with the device. The device would not move from the settings screen. Somehow and someway, I deleted all the files on the device. The device now won't move from the splash screen. I contacted Magellan and was told there was nothing I could do without the receipt.

This week, I went out and bought the same device new from Radio Shack. For about half the price I originally paid. My plan was to copy the software from the new device to the old device and give the old one to a family member.

However, I have copied the files of the new device, but when I plug the old device into the PC, it isn't recognized by the PC as a usb device. Does anyone have any idea as to how to get the PC to recognize the device so I can copy the files to it?

Any information would be helpful.

Sun, 02/15/2009 - 2:11pm

ka1167

16 years

Sorry....

banngtanngo wrote:

Any information would be helpful.

You aren't gonna like this but the honest answer is: NO, if the device has lost it's USB driver, then YOU can't put anything back into it.

Depending on where you bought it, they might be able to make you a duplicate receipt; won't hurt to ask. If you had registered it, this probably wouldn't be a problem either.

Have a look here but I think you have screwed yourself:

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=77

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Magellan Maestro 4250// MIO C310X

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 11:49am