Restore doesn't even work!

[murphyk]

Just bought my IPOD last week. Got it out of the box. Sweet. It looks great. Then plugged it into my PC, and it all went downhill. Managed to transfer some songs after two hours of pain (PC crashes, ephpod hanging, etc.). But then the song titles didn't correspond with the song that was playing, and the track only lasted for a fraction of the time it was supposed to. booo.

Then went home, plugged it in, and the IPOD wasn't recognised. Restore wouldn't recognise the IPOD at first and gave me write errors when i tried to restore. After 10 attempts (at least) it now completes the restore process. Windows recognises the IPOD as my G drive. But when I run ephpod, it says that it needs to rebuild the directory structure, which it then fails to do as it cannot write to the pod. Music match doesn't recognise any portable devices plugged in.

FYI I'm running Windows Xp. My flatmate has an ipod and uses mmjb on the same pc, and I use EAC/LAME/Ephpod combo. or at least I would if anything worked.

I would just take it back if there wasn't a three week waiting list in the UK for IPOD's. and so don't want to be without music for that long.

What the hell do i do now if restore doesn't even work??????

[ashawley]

You're saying this is the exact same PC that works fine w/another iPod?

Normally I'd say you have a firewire card problem, that's usually the cause of not being able to complete a restore, but the fact that the other iPod works fine...well, that leads me to believe it's something else.

'Course it could be the iPod software that's causing the problem. Does your flatmate by any chance have a 1st or 2nd gen iPod?

It would be interesting to see how things went if you removed the MMJB iPod Plugin and the iPod Software (which is not needed). Any chance of doing that?

Adam

[murphyk]

Problem solved.

After deleting MMJB from my system, re-installing ephpod, and deleting ipod_control from the ipod (probably the key move) it seems to work fine. yay.

One key point that I would highlight for ipod co-existence on one machine is that when the second ipod was initially plugged in, the PC was having none of it. I *had* to install all of the apple software (no need for mmjb or audible, just press cancel) and type in the serial number of the second pod. Once you do that you're in business. Just don't forget to delete it all straight afterwards. Have no idea why this triggered it, but the pod was looking pretty dead before that kick.

Thanks for the help, and of course all of the other threads that have been invaluable ;)