PDA

View Full Version : Help - Reformatted Win partition; itunes dosn't recognise ipod


yyiiii
04-16-2005, 03:09 PM
First off let me just say that I have feen faithful lurker to the lounge since my first foray into the ipod community almost a year ago when i bought a mini. Since then i've upgraded to my 40 gig 4G, and 512 Shuffle. I use this site as my bible for all things ipod, and have made all of my accessory purchases though it's guidance.

And now, i ask the community for assistance, as I am at the end of my rope. Heres the story:

OK. So in my pc I have a 120gig HDD, and have it partitioned into a 10gig section upon which windows resides, and the rest of my stuff is in the other. Because I've had a hideous time with video playback, codecs etc (damn you windows, i am buying a Mac as soon as Tiger is released...!). i rescently decided that it would be a good idea to format and re-install windows on the 10gig partition.

Subsequently I think i did myself more harm than good, as when i managed to get windows back on, my programs were (naturally) mostly messed up. So i used Norton Systemworks 2005, clean broken files, and registry and all that. But still my comp is not recognizing my ipod.

I tried mounting my ipod in my family's other computer and it recognized it.

So my question is this, how can i salvage the music loaded on my ipod and keep all the ratings that i've made(over 2500 tracks rated) and get my comp to recognize my ipod. I hope i haven't dug my own grave here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

_matt

Descendant X
04-17-2005, 01:36 PM
You'll probably have to reinstall your iPod software and maybe have to restore the little bugger. It's not what you want to hear, but it's probably what's going to have to happen.