davegtt

I forgot to eject my ipod from itunes yesterday and just unplugged it from my laptop. This morning when I turned it on everything was fine and it was working perfectly. Ive just plugged it back in and it just mentioned its in restore mode and has to be restored before I can use it again. So Ive restored it and its deleted my whole music album (not a problem since its on my laptop anyway so I'll just upload it again) but now its just constantly in restore mode everytime I plug it in and doesnt work anymore

Anyone know a fix for this? Its only about 3 weeks old I dont want to return it if I can fix it myself. Plus I need it for Poker tonight

MelTypeR

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Hi Dave,

Are you using a Mac or PC??

davegtt

PC - XP.

Just followed some online instructions to change the drive letter which Ive done but now Ive reconnected it its not even booting itunes up

MelTypeR

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Dave

The guys here seem to have a number of similar issue as you've had.

Apple - Support - Discussions - iPod Recovery mode loop ...

Probably best to try booting itunes up without your ipod connected.
then connecting to see if it finds it again.

I had the same problem with mine about 2 weeks ago (4gb nano 2G) and the drive letter issue resolved the same problem you had, well for now that is!!!

Mel.

OllyK

If you have to go for an iPOD, first thing to do is ditch the memory hogging turd that is iTunes and get a decent loader for it. I use Anapod, bit long in the tooth now I expect, but works a treat.

RMA26

Sounds like you have "SYNC" mode on in the itunes options

Try turning it off so it doesn't sync everytime with your PC mate

(I had similar issues with my ipod touch)

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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If you have (say) a work PC & a home PC, how on earth do you manage to get new songs onto your iPod if not using the PC you're synced to?

(Sorry for the hijack)

davegtt

Firstly, I actually like iTunes and my PC works a treat with it. If its memory hogging Olly then I suggest you get a new PC

Secondly, I dont use the Sync option, its a pile of sh!te.

Thirdly, Ive fixed it, it didnt just fek my ipod up it fekked itunes, just uninstalled and installed it again. reassigned the drive letter for the ipod and its working fine. 14gb and counting back onto the ipod so far

PTMW, I dont think you can use 2 different PC's with your ipod if you are using the Sync feature as everytime you connect to the PC its Sync'ing with it'll delete anything thats not on that particular HDD.

OllyK

Third party management tools like Anapod!

OllyK

I've got 4Gb of RAM thank you, but that doesn't mean I want to waste large chunks of it on iTunes

You can if you don't use iTunes.

davegtt

Well I dont know what you use your PC for but Im running it perfectly fine at very good speeds and its very user friendly for me so I'll stick with it thanks



I dont like the sync feature anyway so its disabled for me, I use the ipod on multiple machines with no issues that way.

jacrobat

Did you fix it or did your boss fix it again?

davegtt

Actually it was a joint effort but nothing I wouldnt have done on my own

Boro

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iTunes is ****

OllyK

High praise indeed