Darn
10-18-2006, 09:51 AM
Windows XP, itunes 7, video ipod, all updated with the latest firmware.
Plugged her in this morning and received this error. Proceeded to have a thrombo.
My ipod works fine (whatever that means). I use my home comp as the 'pods 'home base' and primary sync comp. When at work, i plug her in and enable manual management and play music thru itunes. I have to do it this way because my library is stored at home.
Yesterday I was fooling around with the logon scripts in my office and mapped some new drive letters. This morning, I plugged her in at work (as usual) and received the “iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.”
Wow, did I pull my hair out!! I was listening to the pod with no problems on the subway, and now it's konking out!!
I was about to give up when I read Kieren's post. After reading it, i instantly remembered all of the drive letter bullhockey I was playing around with yesterday.
Running computer management was a bit tricky. Here's what I had to do in order to re-assign the drive letter:
Start -> Run -> compmgmt.msc
Drill down 'Storage', highlight Disk Management
Plug ipod in. Wait.
Make sure the computer management window is the topmost window. If you don't, you won't be able to get in there and change the drive letter of your ipod. The ipod will disappear out of the computer management window once itunes rejects it, or accepts your acknowledgement that it's rejecting it.
Then I think i right clicked on the volume (or something) and changed the drive letter.
Just to make sure windows remembered my change, I ejected the pod and plugged it in again. Looks like it was mapped to the letter I had specified. Don't know if this setting will hold after a reboot/cold boot.
Anyway people, check this...ipod seems to want to take a drive letter closest to your fixed volumes. At work, I have a C and E internal HD, so Ipod was looking for F:. But F: was mapped to the porn directory on my company's server, so I got the error (NO, NOT PORN. heheheh). Now I forced ipod to take G:. I guess the best way to avoid this issue on a network like this is to keep all the low letters (A->G or something) reserved for your local comp, and the high letters (Z -> M or whatever) for mapped network drives.
Rock on in Lebanon!
Plugged her in this morning and received this error. Proceeded to have a thrombo.
My ipod works fine (whatever that means). I use my home comp as the 'pods 'home base' and primary sync comp. When at work, i plug her in and enable manual management and play music thru itunes. I have to do it this way because my library is stored at home.
Yesterday I was fooling around with the logon scripts in my office and mapped some new drive letters. This morning, I plugged her in at work (as usual) and received the “iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.”
Wow, did I pull my hair out!! I was listening to the pod with no problems on the subway, and now it's konking out!!
I was about to give up when I read Kieren's post. After reading it, i instantly remembered all of the drive letter bullhockey I was playing around with yesterday.
Running computer management was a bit tricky. Here's what I had to do in order to re-assign the drive letter:
Start -> Run -> compmgmt.msc
Drill down 'Storage', highlight Disk Management
Plug ipod in. Wait.
Make sure the computer management window is the topmost window. If you don't, you won't be able to get in there and change the drive letter of your ipod. The ipod will disappear out of the computer management window once itunes rejects it, or accepts your acknowledgement that it's rejecting it.
Then I think i right clicked on the volume (or something) and changed the drive letter.
Just to make sure windows remembered my change, I ejected the pod and plugged it in again. Looks like it was mapped to the letter I had specified. Don't know if this setting will hold after a reboot/cold boot.
Anyway people, check this...ipod seems to want to take a drive letter closest to your fixed volumes. At work, I have a C and E internal HD, so Ipod was looking for F:. But F: was mapped to the porn directory on my company's server, so I got the error (NO, NOT PORN. heheheh). Now I forced ipod to take G:. I guess the best way to avoid this issue on a network like this is to keep all the low letters (A->G or something) reserved for your local comp, and the high letters (Z -> M or whatever) for mapped network drives.
Rock on in Lebanon!