Using Ipod as a Flash USB Drive

I'm planing to buy an Apple IPod Shuffle, but I would like to use it more like a portable USB Drive, to transfer any kind of files, like Word documents, small video files, pictures, etc.
I understand that the ONLY way I can listen music directly form the IPod Shuffle is by adding the songs trough Itunes. But, for example, if I fill the IPod with several songs , and after that I put it in DISK MODE to take it to school and ad other type of files, will I be able to listen songs normally? or I have to disable the Disk Mode in order to use it as a music player?
Thanks for your time.

My personal experience is that I have been able to use the Shuffle as a flash drive, even on my work computer where there are no special drivers or any iTunes software (it runs XP, as does the computer I used to set up the Shuffle). I simply used the slider in iTunes to set aside a certain amount of space, 32 megs in my case, for file storage. I've not had a problem on any computer, although it appears that people's experiences differ. I am pretty sure that you need to have disc mode enabled and file space set aside on your Shuffle's "home computer."

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Using iPod as a flash drive between PC and Mac help!

Hey guys,
I have no idea how can I make my iPod a flash drive. Well, it was fine when my school used G4 iMacs last week. But now it's all HP pcs. And I cannot transfer my files to those computers anymore. When I plug my iPod via USB to one of them computer, it says that I will need to format the disk drive (iPod) because it cannot read the file system.
I guess it is because of my iPod is always connected to Macs (including mine) so that the file format on the iPod is unreadable to PCs. So I have no idea what to do because I am scared of that PC is going to ruin my iPod hard drive and its OS. I tried plugging it to a PC at my house, same thing happened. I am too scared to try.
Do you guys have any idea?
Thank you in advance,
Ton

Probably the easiest way to use an iPod on both Mac and Windows computers is to format the iPod (using iPod Updater) using the PC. This will force your iPod to use the Windows file system (FAT32) which both the Mac and PC can read from and write to without the help of additional software. Of course then all your software updates for the iPod will have to be done on Windows.
If you need to use a Mac (HFS+) formatted iPod on a Windows PC, you'll need to install some 3rd party software such as XPlay 2.0 (which you can get from MediaFour Software). This will enable your Windows PC to read a Mac-formatted iPod.

How can I use my iPhone as a USB drive?

I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a portable USB drive -- the same way I can use my old iPod. Is there a way to do this, or (Apple, are you listening) will this be included in a future OS release?
I find it difficult to believe that this basic functionality is not included on the iPhone when it is included in virtually every other smart phone.
Thanks.

"I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a portable USB drive -- the same way I can use my old iPod."
You cannot. The iphone is not your old ipod and is not designed with the same features.
" Is there a way to do this,"
No.
(Apple, are you listening"
No. This is a user forum. You can leave feedback for Apple at: http://www.apple.com/feedback
" will this be included in a future OS release?"
There is no possible way to know this, but there is no reason to believe that this will ever happen.
"I find it difficult to believe that this basic functionality is not included on the iPhone when it is included in virtually every other smart phone."
Difficult or not, it is so.

IPod Nano, Windows, and USB driver quirkiness question

Hey all,
I recently helped someone who was suffering from two separate, show-stopping iPod/iTunes problems to get things into such a state that they could actually make use of both. Things seem to be working fine, though one of our solutions seems to me to be a bit less than optimal.
For the sake of providing as much information as possible, the first problem (though likely unrelated) was the infamous vanishing iTunes installation. We solved this by using the ctrl-alt-delete trick on an iTunes 4.9 installation (that is, by ending all of the install processes when the installation-ending error message shows up.) Okay, that's not the best solution, but it seems to be all that we can do for now.
The main concern, however, is with the iPod USB driver, and a problem that began with the formatting of the iPod. I can see that at least a few people have had this problem, but here it is for the sake of it:
The iPod installation software would state that the iPod needed to be formated, and then proceed to sit for a very long time, "waiting for iPod," until it would eventually fail. We solved this using the second technique (uninstalling the iPod USB driver) outlined by Paul Green7 in this thread: William Brame, "Initial formatting of iPod Nano", 02:49pm Sep 22, 2005 CDT
After doing this, we ran the iPod setup software again, and it told us that the iPod didn't need to be formatted. Obviously this was rather confusing, but upon loading up iTunes, it proved to be true. It appeared as an actual drive in My Computer, and it showed up properly as a 4gb iPod which songs could be copied to without a hitch.
That is, until the computer was rebooted. After a reboot, the iPod would only be recognized once again as a "USB Mass Storage Device," would not appear in My Computer, and indeed iTunes failed to recognize it as anything other than a 360gb storage device of some unknown sort.
So, what we found was that every time the computer was rebooted, the driver needed to be uninstalled again, and when Windows booted again the iPod would be properly recognized.
Now, as I said, this leaves things in a working, if far less than ideal, state. Can anyone think of a more proper fix for this? It seems to me that we've only partially addressed the problem here, and I can't help but think that this may not be the best state to leave things in.
Also, if nothing else, is there any possibility of ill effects resulting from our currently-employed solution? As far as I can tell, the worst thing about it is that it's merely bothersome, but then, I've had difficult understanding these problems in the first place.
That said, if anyone can offer any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!

The key to your problem is more than likely the 360GB storage device. This is a symptom of having either network drives or an external hard drive attached to your computer, and Windows confusing them with the iPod. The solution is to reassign the iPod's drive letter. See this:
Strange iPod behavior

Problems with RAID and a Flash USB Drive

I'm attempting to install on a RAID 1 array using just one usb flash drive. Yes, just one. I'm trying out the idea's in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64281
Partitioning scheme:
sdb1 -> boot partition
sdb2 -> swap
sdb3 -> raid 1 array -> root
I set the partitiions to type 0xfd (linux raid autodetect) in fdisk (probably not necessary) and created the array with:
mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n 2 -l -b internal missing -W --write-behind /dev/sdb3
I then installed like normal, specifying that I needed usb and raid hooks in mkinitcpio.conf
I added "md=0,/dev/sdb3" as a kernel option in grub's menu.lst, specifying that the md driver should assemble /dev/md0 (my root partition) out of /dev/sdb3 before trying to mount it.
This process was succesful using a partition on my hard drive.
However, using a usb drive causes a kernel panic during boot when trying to mount /dev/md0.
Looking at the messages reveals that before my usb drive was detected, md attempted to create the array, unsuccessfully, as /dev/sdb didn't exist yet. "md: unkown device name /dev/sdb3" or something to that effect.
In mkinitcpio.conf, the usb hook comes before the raid hook, so this shouldn't be happening, should it?

I think rootdelay will not work in that special case, rootdelay makes the system to wait after all the hooks are executed, and you need to wait before executing the raid hook.
I don't know if there is an easy way for that, but one solution is to modify the raid hook to wait for /dev/sdb3 to be created :
- edit /lib/initcpio/hooks/raid, add this before the /bin/mdassemble command :
until [ -e /dev/sdb3 ] ;
do
sleep 1 ;
done
- rebuild your boot images with mkinitcpio (you'll need to chroot to your system)
that should work
PS: someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I know, the usb hook does not create your /dev/sdb (if you edit the usb hook, you'll see that it only set rootdelay if it is not yet set). it is the udev daemon, which is launched in the background by the udev hook, and the udev daemon is quite long to create USB device nodes.

Help I itunes will not recognize my iphone or ipod. Trouble with USB driver, device not running in safe mode, and HDCP not supported.

Help! When I connect my iphone or ipod touch to my computer, windows recognizes my device but itunes will not. I can still see my songs, videos, and access the itunes store but my phone and itunes store have no connection so it does me no good. I have for 2 days now tried every trouble shooting method posted with no luck. I think I may have finally found a lead. My Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is showing up under portable mobile devices while it is supposed to be showing up under universal serial Bus controllers from my understanding? Also, while running my diagnostic report under itunes it also says itunes is not running in safe mode, it is not showing enabled in windows firewall (which it is checked), and the HDCP is not supported. I don't know what to do? I am in tears here, someone please help!!!

See Here for Device not recognised:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
Here for General Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/
This may also be helpful:
AMDS for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567

Using iPod as an external hard drive while recording

I've found that using my older iPod photo as an external drive when recording seems to work really well for me. Has anyone else also experienced this?
Is this a good idea and can I run Reason 4 and other plug-ins from my iPod? If I do, should I daisy chain or use a PCMCIA Firewire card for it?
Thanks in advance for your answer.

It's not a good idea, iPod hard drives are not designed for sustained transfers like this and you will eventually kill it.
Given that external drives are so cheap, you are far better off getting a decently fast 7200rpm drive that is robust, rather than relying on the little 3600 drive (or whatever it is) in the iPod...

Transfering music from pc to mac using iPod as a hard disk drive

I just got MacBook Pro and iPod which I have formatted for a mac, however, I want to get the songs from my IBM thinkpad to my mac. I transfered a bunch of them with a friends external hard drive, but forgot about all my purchused songs from the music store. I am pretty sure there is a way to use the iPod as a hard disk drive but everytime i attach it to my thinkpad it asks if I want to format the iPod and then won't transfer. So I guess my question is can I do this and if I can do I have to format it to windows and then transfer the files to the iPod and will I be able to put the files from my thinkpad to my mac?
thanks!!!

An iPod formatted for Mac won't run natively on a PC because the Windows OS does not support the HFS Plus file system and therefore will not see the drive. You can reformat your iPod on Windows if you want to use it on both platforms as Macs can read Windows formatting, then you could enable it for disk use on the PC: How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

Using Time MACHINE with a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme

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Hi, Nubz!
Yes, I just saw that, and am still chuckling.
Maybe that will mollify the Jive gods?
Thanks again,
Jim

Problems installing CS4 by flash/USB drive

I purchased the DVD-Roms late last year to install CS4. The programs successfully installed on my laptop, which recently died and is in the shop. But I never was able to install them on the desktop and would like to do so. When I put the DVDs into my DVD reader (which doesn't normally have problems reading things), it grinds away but cannot read the disks. My attempted solution was to copy the programs on a USB drive. In disc 1 I selected "autoplay" and most of the programs are installed but still not useable until I can get the second disc to also install.
Now I have a message, "Please insert Adobe CS4 Design Premium into drive E:\ to continue installation.
- If I put the application disc 2 in the drive, it revs but does not actually read the disc.
- On the USB folder sitting on my desktop for Application 2, my options are:
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     -- cs4_designprem_disc (Opens to show an icon/graphic)
This is not a space issue because last time, I downloaded the "trial version" of CS4 from the website when it was available and then would manually enter my serial number. I wiped the hard drive. Now customer support says there are no links available online to CS4 since CS5 is soon available.
Any suggestions on how to get application disc 2 installed too, from the USB drive if possible?

Download on the iMac OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 and create a USB recovery disk.
Use that USB disk to boot your MBP retina.
Use the Terminal, that you find inside the recovery environment, to perform these commands
Verifiy that the main internal disk is labelled /dev/disk0
diskutil list
this command will completely erase the internal disk. Please change /dev/disk0 if your is different, (it should not).
diskutil eraseDisk jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" GPT /dev/disk0
Verify that you just have 3 partition, no more Recovery HD partition
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2
Quit Terminal and proceed with Reinstall Mac OS X
It'll take a lot of time, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
Please, do not hesitate to ask if you are in doubt

Can I use ipod touch 3/8g by drive-by-wire earphone?

Can i us my ipod touch 3/8g by drive-by-wire earphone(such as shuffle's) ?
If i use it
can i ctrl the voice +/- on it?

your earphone from iP5 does not support your iPod shuffle (gen3)
Check it out that earphone compatibility and it does not work with iPod shuffle (Gen3).
Therefore, this is normal.

Using ipod as a flash drive

Yes, it's the same as a Flash Drive, and can be used
to store anything you want.
say i put a paper for class on it and i wana upload it on school computers do i have to load my ipod on the computers and take my usb or what?

See if this helps;
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
Cheers!
-Bryan
that wont work when i go to prefrences my manage songs manually is checked but the enable disk use is not checked and is gray and i cant check it

IPod nano appears as USB drive, but unrecognised by iTunes for Windows

I have a video iPod, and my daughter has a iPod nano. Yesterday, when I tried to load new songs on the nano, iTunes failed to recognize it. I tried the 5 R's -- I am able to update the nano using the iPod updater, and I tried updating, as well as restoring. the iPod updater is able to see the nano and I was able to restore. So now I have a nano that I am able to navigate the menus of, but thee is no music on it of course.
The nano is not recognized by a second computer as well. The video iPod is recognized by both computers, so I suspect the problem is with the nano.
We use the same user account for both devices, and it has worked without a flaw for the past 2 months.
Does any one have suggestions?
Kumar.
Pentium 4, 2 GHz, 512 MB Windows XP

Problem solved
The fact that the Nano did not work on both computers was a coincidence.
Apple uses a special driver for the iPod disk (I suppose there is a packet filter or some special function in their driver that must sit between iTunes and the standard flash drive driver).
I updated the Nano again, and deleted as many of the hidden USB drivers as possible from the device manager. Then I connected the Nano to a new USB port and that did the trick.
I have not tried attaching the Nano to the old USB port yet.
Windows is terrible at managing drivers -- there is no systematic way of figuring out associations between drivers and software components. Perhaps someone from Apple could post a detailed method paper on how to identify and get rid of drivers installed when you use iTunes and the iPod, so that Windows can pick it up again.
When I connected my video iPod yesterday, it prompted me to update it, but I am the wiser now. I am going to avoid updating iTunes or the iPod software as far as possible.
Pentium 4 Windows XP

"This USB drive cannot be used. Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition."

I only have one external drive..can I use it both for time machine AND saving windows support for bootcamp?
I partitioned my external drive into two: one for Time Machine backup, and the other as MS-DOS FAT.
But this won't work when I use the BootCamp Assistant. What should I do? I don't want to reformat my external drive and not have a backup of my Mac, and I need to install PC-only software for class.

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Using iPod as an external hard drive

hi!
I'm planning on buying the iPod 80g. I was wondering if that iPod is good enough to be use as an external hard drive. Oh yeah! and I may transfere from mac to pc because my school got no mac :S thx for the help guy.

hi!
I'm planning on buying the iPod 80g. I was wondering
if that iPod is good enough to be use as an external
hard drive. Oh yeah! and I may transfere from mac to
pc because my school got no mac :S thx for the help
guy.
To do this you need a third party program, you can download one here at www.yamipod.com
kEat0n

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