dethbunny
03-23-2005, 12:38 AM
I apparently have the reverse of the issue everyone else is clamoring about. iTunes loves my iPod just fine, syncing and updating to its hearts content. The problem is, Windows does not love my iPod. Before you even ask, I have the "Enable disk use" option checked in the iTunes prefs. I have tried setting the iPod to manually manage songs - still no worky.
I'm on a WinXP SP2 machine, with an iPod photo that connects via either USB or FireWire. The situation is the same on either bus. My system drive is c:, with an additional hard drive at d: Thus, the iPod should show up as e: - but it doesn't. (Yes, I have optical drives, but they occupy letters at the end of the alphabet because of irrelevant personal preferences.)
My symptoms are as follows: I do not see the iPod in Explorer. The "safely disconnect hardware" icon appears in my system tray as it should. The iPod disk appears in the Logical Disk Manager just like it should - listed under its proper drive letter. I even tried changing the drive letter there, but the iPod continues to elude me from within Explorer. I can type the drive letter into the Explorer location bar, but get an error to the effect that Windows can't find the file or folder I'm telling it to find.
DOS (or rather the facsimile thereof that is part of XP) has no problem using the iPod for data access. It's just, well, a pain to use DOS when there's a nice shiny GUI right in front of me. (Maybe I should break out MidnightCommaner)
By the way, other removable USB devices work fine for me. They appear in Explorer as expected and provide full connectivity. I'm at a loss as for why the iPod just won't let me use it the way God intended - as a removeable hard disk! =P
I'm on a WinXP SP2 machine, with an iPod photo that connects via either USB or FireWire. The situation is the same on either bus. My system drive is c:, with an additional hard drive at d: Thus, the iPod should show up as e: - but it doesn't. (Yes, I have optical drives, but they occupy letters at the end of the alphabet because of irrelevant personal preferences.)
My symptoms are as follows: I do not see the iPod in Explorer. The "safely disconnect hardware" icon appears in my system tray as it should. The iPod disk appears in the Logical Disk Manager just like it should - listed under its proper drive letter. I even tried changing the drive letter there, but the iPod continues to elude me from within Explorer. I can type the drive letter into the Explorer location bar, but get an error to the effect that Windows can't find the file or folder I'm telling it to find.
DOS (or rather the facsimile thereof that is part of XP) has no problem using the iPod for data access. It's just, well, a pain to use DOS when there's a nice shiny GUI right in front of me. (Maybe I should break out MidnightCommaner)
By the way, other removable USB devices work fine for me. They appear in Explorer as expected and provide full connectivity. I'm at a loss as for why the iPod just won't let me use it the way God intended - as a removeable hard disk! =P