Azmyth
02-28-2005, 01:50 PM
Please choose the appropriate forum for this topic. Thank you. I scanned the forums and couldn't find this specific problem posted so here goes:
My 4G 60GB iPod Photo will not connect to iTunes as an iPod - it only connects as a removable drive. I can browse the drive see that all my songs are there but when navigating the iPod through the touch pad I can't see anything - no songs, play lists, anything related to my songs; when connected iTunes won't sync the music. Using My Computer, I can see the iPod and its treated like a removable drive. All my photos are there (and iTunes syncs them) so I'm not sure what the deal is.
This wasn't always the case.. I installed the iTunes and iPod software just fine and it worked for a few days before this happened. I think I accidentally undocked the iPod without unmounting it and lost its database somehow. This is the second time this happened but to resolve it, I just restarted my PC and then docked the iPod - this time the fix doesn't work.
This is my third iPod. I had the very first 1G iPod with XPlay installed and it worked just fine (still does actually, but I uninstalled XPlay after I installed the iTunes software so now it won't work on a PC). I had a 4G 40GB iPod Photo that I bought last Tuesday and exchanged for the 60GB.
The only thing I've tried is rebooting the PC and redocking. I couldn't get the iPod to reset (and didn't need to before) and I don't want to reformat the drive because I shouldn't have to do this - this is the second time this has happened in 5 days so I will not be transferring 25GB of music every time this happens.
Here are the PC specs if that helps in any way:
2.0Ghz P4
512MB RAM
1x 120GB HD as a single system partition (C:)
1x 200GB HD as single data partition (D:)
1x Plextor DVD ± R/W
1x Plextor CD-RW
SB Audigy 2 Platinum w/ 1394 port used for iPod
Here is what I did:
I uninstalled XPlay 2.0
rebooted PC and redocked
I've seen a lot of posts that talk about mounting problems and my issue could be related but I can use it as a disk and I don't get any errors when connecting the iPod to the PC.
Has anyone seen and resolved this problem where the photos are copied, the iPod can be used as a removable drive (oh... and I DON'T have that use as disk setting checked in iTunes), and the song database on the iPod isn't functional even though I can browse the HD for the songs.
Thanks in advance for any help.
My 4G 60GB iPod Photo will not connect to iTunes as an iPod - it only connects as a removable drive. I can browse the drive see that all my songs are there but when navigating the iPod through the touch pad I can't see anything - no songs, play lists, anything related to my songs; when connected iTunes won't sync the music. Using My Computer, I can see the iPod and its treated like a removable drive. All my photos are there (and iTunes syncs them) so I'm not sure what the deal is.
This wasn't always the case.. I installed the iTunes and iPod software just fine and it worked for a few days before this happened. I think I accidentally undocked the iPod without unmounting it and lost its database somehow. This is the second time this happened but to resolve it, I just restarted my PC and then docked the iPod - this time the fix doesn't work.
This is my third iPod. I had the very first 1G iPod with XPlay installed and it worked just fine (still does actually, but I uninstalled XPlay after I installed the iTunes software so now it won't work on a PC). I had a 4G 40GB iPod Photo that I bought last Tuesday and exchanged for the 60GB.
The only thing I've tried is rebooting the PC and redocking. I couldn't get the iPod to reset (and didn't need to before) and I don't want to reformat the drive because I shouldn't have to do this - this is the second time this has happened in 5 days so I will not be transferring 25GB of music every time this happens.
Here are the PC specs if that helps in any way:
2.0Ghz P4
512MB RAM
1x 120GB HD as a single system partition (C:)
1x 200GB HD as single data partition (D:)
1x Plextor DVD ± R/W
1x Plextor CD-RW
SB Audigy 2 Platinum w/ 1394 port used for iPod
Here is what I did:
I uninstalled XPlay 2.0
rebooted PC and redocked
I've seen a lot of posts that talk about mounting problems and my issue could be related but I can use it as a disk and I don't get any errors when connecting the iPod to the PC.
Has anyone seen and resolved this problem where the photos are copied, the iPod can be used as a removable drive (oh... and I DON'T have that use as disk setting checked in iTunes), and the song database on the iPod isn't functional even though I can browse the HD for the songs.
Thanks in advance for any help.