30 GB 5th Gen iPod Not Restoring

Yesterday I was about 20 minutes into a 2 hour trip and I pulled off at a rest stop. I had my iPod plugged into my Belkin charger and when I turned the car off, the iPod paused. When I turned the car back on, the iPod stayed paused and then reset itself and displayed the sad iPod. When I got home I connected my iPod and iTunes said I needed to restore it, but it couldn't restore. It hasn't been able to at all, and I'm tempted to format the thing in Disk Utility and try again. It generates error 1418.

Have you had a chance to look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Error 1415, 1417, 1418, or 1428 when restoring or updating an iPod in iTunes 7 or later

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Does the 5th gen ipod not work in docking stations or is it possible mine isn't functioning right. I contacted the manufacturer of the station in one of the cars and they said all ipods should work.

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Hello everyone. I have a 5th generation Ipod I recently purchased that I'm having what seems to be an common issue. When I connect the ipod to my computer via USB, the Ipod is not recognized in windows or Itunes. Occasionally the Ipod will charge when connected but not always. Though this is the same for the old wire I used and the new one I purchased today. Even when shown charging the Ipod is not recognized and there is no noise that a device has been connected. I have tried the 4 R's (without Restore) which I can't do, chaninging the drive letter, disabling start up software,uninstalling and reinstalling all Apple Software. I have tried connecting to another computer and have gotten the same result. When I check the diagnostic screen on the ipod it shows that a usb cable is detected. I have upgraded all my driver software, disabled and reenabled them. I'm almost 3 hours from the nearest store so that it out of the question. I'm curious if anyone has any other ideas and will try anything you think might be the issue and fix. Thank you for time.

From my experience, the only way you're gonna get a PC afflicted with this disease to work with a 5th gen nano is to roll back to an earlier version of iTunes. Those affected have been exhausted by this ongoing issue. To update or not to update? And I always say never update unless you have to, and turn off all that auto update mess!
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I have both a 4th and 5th gen nano. The 4th gen works great on both machines, I even successfully tested it with the latest version (11.1.5) before subsequent deletion on the thinkpad! Weird huh? I think my next experiment might be to restore my 5th gen w/ a Mac and theeeeen plug it into PC itunez.
I'm at a loss on the thinkpad. Scanned for intruders. Cut the Lenovo bloat. Executed system and reg maintenance. Took down msconfig to a safe mode + itunes level to attempt to resolve possible sw conflicts but to no avail. NO NO NO. Every single dang port, every time on the thinkpad. Has me feeling like others might get the same treatment by the next itunes update. :|
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5th gen nano and thinkpad are a NoGo on 11.1^ last working version for me = 11.0.1
5th gen nano is working on an acer aspire 11.1.0 but no way in the world am I updating
4th gen nano is kicking 5th gen nano's @zz so what would make me want to buy a new ipod?

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Try Resetting Your iPod while it's connected to the computer.
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Date/Time: 2007-08-08 06:42:00.704 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R218)
Report Version: 4
Command: iTunes
Path: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
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Memory Module: DIMM0/J11, 1 GB, DDR SDRAM, PC2700U-25330
Modem: Jump, V.92, Version 1.0
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Try Resetting Your iPod while it's connected to the computer.
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Buy a Saab.
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My problem seems a bit similar to others but just not quite enough that I have to ask this. Sorry for the long post in advance.
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Reset my Ipod.
Try another Cable. Another USB cable will not work but I can interestingly enough charge my Ipod with a car adapter I bought.
Tried two very different PC's. One a laptop (HP) the other a home built pc.
I checked my services.msc like some have suggested. Both Plug and pray and Terminal services are on.
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So I am going to try and get a replacement. I let you know if this solved my problem.

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[SERVICE: 0xD28,01:22:37 INFO] ##### iPodService starting as a service, version: 7.0.2.16
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Hello there, bradfordfan.
The following Knowledge Base article provides some great information for troubleshooting your issue:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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