hello all,
i've got a problem with my iPod and have looked everywhere to no avail, including apple's homepage, etc. It's a 3rd gen formatted for PC. I'll explain what happened below, hopefully someone has got an idea.
I live in Colombia, and don't have my own computer, so I connect my iPod to friends' computers to upload songs, etc. And I've never had a problem with that, until recently. I connected my iPod to a friend's computer a few weeks back, and since then, i cannot successfully connect it to any computer. The iPod realizes that it is connected to a computer, and the flashing "do not disconnect" warning pops up, but no computer i've been to can open up the iPod harddrive, or iTunes for that matter. The computer basically freezes until I disconnect my iPod.
ive rebooted my iPod a few times -- nothing. now i have it in disk mode, and connected it to this computer, and it's acting the same way it would if it wasnt in disc mode: whenever i try to open the iPod through My PC, that window freezes and i need to close it using ctrl alt del. I open iTunes, and my iPod doesnt show up. i go to edit iPod preferences and it says, "no iPod connected."
i downloaded the ephpod program to see if that would help at all. that says something like, "hey, seems like your iPod has no directory structure, and all iPods need to have one. do you want to build one?" i click yes, then ephpod freezes.
i can listen to music and charge my iPod, no problem. but anything involving a cpu doesnt work.
now ive disconnected my iPod, and the screen is stuck on "Disk Mode, ok to disconnect."
ideas?
thanks again. trashmonk
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