A Blue Screen of Death With My 3rd. GEN Pods

Question

I hope someone has the patience to help
me out with a Pod-related question; your assistance would be immeasurable.
In 2003 I purchased both a 30-GIG and a 20-GIG i-Pod,
both of course with the functions located just below the
screen, not on the scroll wheel (I think both models
are 3rd Gen. Pods).
In 2005 I bought a 60-GIG i-Pod with photo and have
since relegated the 20 and 30-GIG models to
non-use.
At this current juncture, though, I am within 20 or so
songs of having filled up my 60-GIG with songs and,
rather than spend more $$ n the new 80-GIG model (I
have an external hard drive that has stored more than
90% of my tunes), I would like to restore either the
20-or 30-GIG models and place new songs on it/them.
The problem: After taking the 20-GIG out of mothballs
and fully charging it at a i-Pod dock connected to a portable speaker system last weekend (Altec Lansing), I then placed it on the dock connected to my computer. After almost a minute, my screen turned blue and a statement appeared: Your computer is being shut down to prevent serious damage to your system, or something to that effect.
Being the trooper, I restarted my computer and then proceeded to try my fortunes with the 30-GIG
(same process for charging as mentioned above), and
once more, upon its being placed on the computer dock,
I got the same "blue screen of death" and same
warning.
In both cases, I had to restart my computer and to of
course, remove the Pods from the dock.
The blue screen contained this information:
"Page fault-in; nonpaged area; .0x00000050 ntfs.sys. If problem continues, disable/remove any newly installed hardware/ software."
Does anyone know why my computer is resistant to the
earlier model Pods but not to either an i-Pod MIni
that I got from a friend over this summer or to my
60-GIGer? It is the same computer I used to load the
songs that currently exist on these two early models
(Windows XP has replaced Windows 2000, if that means
anything). The computer is a Compaq Presario.
Again, my sincere thanks for taking the time to read
and reply.
Greg

Answer 1

Have you tried to connect your iPod with other computer? Does it has the same problem?
] Windows users having trouble with their iPods should locate a Mac user. In many cases when an iPod won't show up on a PC that it will show up on the Mac. Then it can be restored. When the PC user returns to his computer the iPod will be recognized by the PC, reformatted for the PC, and usable again. By the way, it works in reverse too. A Mac user often can get his iPod back by connecting it to a PC and restoring it.
Tips
a. It does not matter whether the format is completed or not, the key is to erase (or partly) the corrupted firmware files on the Hard Drive of the iPod. After that, when the iPod re-connected with a computer, it will be recognized as an fresh external hard drive, it will show up on the iTunes 7.
b. It is not a difficult issue for a Mac user to find a window base computer, for a PC user, if they can’t find any Mac user, they can go to a nearest Apple Shop for a favor.
c. You may need to switch around the PC and Mac, try to do several attempts between “Format” and “Restore”
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