[patzoul]

As I was syncing my ipod, iTunes 5 froze and since then I cant get my ipod to rework. I have resetted it many times and now all the songs are gone. On certain resets, I get the folder with the exclamation mark. On others, it scans the disk (ie disk with magnifying glass) and fails.

I finally managed to mount it. The iPod Updater after staying the initialization phase for about 20 minutes finished by saying that the updater doesnt support this ipod. If I double click on the iPod icon it takes almost 5 minutes for the folder to open. I also tried to run Disk Utility but it just said "gathering information" and did not get anywhere.

Things are not looking good. Is my iPod dead?

[reemas]

run the hardware reset under apps, utilities, ipod updater

[patzoul]

By hardware reset do you mean the usual ipod reset (hold button on, off then press the 2 middle buttons)?
I tried restoring the ipod but the progress bar reaches the first 30% of progress after a couple of hours and then doesnt seem to be able to get any further.

[reemas]

no check apples website on restoring it to factory defaults. it has to do with the "ipod updater" under utilities, applications.

mine froze up badly. i thought it was gone. that fixed it comepletely. post back if it does ro doesnt work. thanks.