[happychamp21]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to connect the iPod to any WinXP computer, using usb cable, without having iTunes installed on the computer, and use iPod as USB Memory Key.

As we use the usb memory keys to connect to any computer and they are detected and we use them to transfer the data. Is it possible that after enabling the HardDrive feature on iPod we can use it with any computer installed with winxp, connect it and copy any data files.

Waiting for the replies.

Thanks

Regards
Happy

[macgyvr64]

Yes, newer cross-platform iPods should work everywhere as a USB drive without iTunes installed. Some may require you to turn on the disk option in iTunes on a single computer (to set the preference on the iPod itself).

[ghporter]

You have to put the iPod into disk mode first, but it should work just fine. When you plug an iPod into a Windows machine (without the iPod driver) it will be detected as a USB hard drive anyway. You have to tell the iPod to act like a drive, but it should work fine.

[myyth]

i can understand why people, at least windows users might want another third party software to view their ipod. at first, i didnt think i could view my files, because in my file structure i saw"ipods and itunes...."as a drive, and clicked that but saw nothing.
but when i expanded my view and saw the full name of the drive, that the ipod renamed my CD drive to "Ipod and Itunes CD drive"
(apparanetly now the ipod owns my CD drive :0 )
which is why i saw nothing, and why i it was asking me to burn files when i moved files onto it.
but just below it is the actual ipod drive, which i named "computers" just cuz i couldnt think of anything at the time, so that also is why i didnt recognize it as my ipod as first.

i can drag files and copy them onto the ipod and im assuming i can store any files on the ipod too and use it like a flash drive. i dragged an mp3 into the root folder, it does not appear in the music selection, but seems to be on the ipod. so you must go through itunes to move your music onto the ipod so it gets renamed/converted and placed into ipods file structure.

but what stranges is the way the ipod organizes its files.

all the music files are in the iPod_control folder then in the music folder, and whats really funny is that its further divided into all these F folders and the music files that i have transfers to the ipod have all been given new titles like ZZFGR and randomly scattered throughout the F folders. some files are in the F00 file, some are in the F03, or F015 file. why it didnt put files in the F01 or F02 folder, why it skipped those, i dont know.
i also dont know why it choose the folders it did, one of the folders has a video file, and a Mp3 file.

wouldnt it be alot easier if i could just drag my existing file structure of music files onto the ipod, and its duplicated onto the ipod??
why all this funny renaming, and a file structure that to me makes no sense.

but you can store files on the ipod and transfer them between computers and they arnt converted, and you can drop and drag files onto your ipod. they just wont appear in the ipod listings.