Can't Enable Disk Mode

I have the red X, I'm tried the steps outlined on support page. I get the apple logo to appear immediately press center and play and it holds at apple screen for a few seconds then goes back to red X? Any help I live a distance away from any apple store and really don't want to pay 30 bucks to get something fixed that's quite clearly an apple problem

I have the same problem too, so still don't know the way to fix my Ipod. Nobody else know about this problem here. What shall we do now?

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    it seems like there are a lot of people with similar problems but nothing exact..here goes:
    -doing research on my macbook and i get a popup from itunes saying that my ipod was disconnected improperly (i didn't touch it and i wasn't even messing around on itunes)
    -ipod restarts and reconnects with itunes and i get another pop up saying that "itunes cannot read the contents of the ipod. go to ipod summery and preferences and restore.
    -i would just restore it and reload all the music butttttt like an idiot..i dont keep my music in my itunes cause it takes up way too much space and i never used any external hard drive or anything to back my music up (again..idiot..i know)
    -so i read though a ton of forums and posts and see that im not the only one that this has happened to and everyone is saying to put it in disc mode, go to removable disk, copy all the music back to my macbook, restore my ipod, and put all the music back on. i also read something about clicking on my ipod icon on my desktop and going under ipod controls and changing some names (i dont konw if that was jsut for windows or what) but i also dont have an option of ipod controls
    -the problem with that is that i can put my ipod into disk mode but that does me no good because i can't enable disk use on itunes because literally..my only option when i plug in my ipod is to restore it. under devices on the left hand menu, it just says ipod..not ipod with a bunch of sub categories like music and playlists and stuff..just ipod.
    -normally..i would just give up and restore it but when i go to the about section on my actual ipod, it says that i have 50GB of "other" so that means that stuff is definitely still on it.
    -so finally..my main question is:
    is there ANY way to enable disk use on my iTunes without doing it through my iPod?..like i explained..when i plug my iPod in..that is not an option. and also..would i benefit from just bringing my laptop and ipod into an apple store and asking for help there or will that just be a waste of time?

    The library on the iPod will have been damaged - hence the reason it appears empty, but the media files are still there taking up space and reported as "Other". Check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod recovery options.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
    Some of the tools mentioned will require a working library, but I know from experience that you can use the manual recovey method when the library is missing or damaged. If you're struggling for space you probably need to go & buy an external drive before you start. Stick the iPod in disk mode. Hold Menu+Select > 6 seconds (resets iPod) followed immediately by hold Previous & Select > 6 seconds. You can now drag the contents of iPod_Control\Music to your new hard drive. You may need to reveal hidden files & folders. Once they are on your hard drive you can create a new empty library on the drive, then import the files you have reovered and consolidate the imported library so that the files are in a standard artist\album\## track structure rather that the iPod's obscured names.
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  • Enable Disk Mode: I'm Stumped

    I'm trying to transfer my iTunes files to a new PC. Two problems:
    (1) My iPod appears in "My Computer" only briefly before disappearing. iTunes sees it, and I have no trouble adding new material via my old computer. It just isn't accessible from "My Computer".
    (2) My iPod will not stay in "Enable Disk" mode. I click it, and click Apply. But the next time I connect my iPod to my computer it is no longer in Enable Disk mode. (Note: although iTunes tells me that it is "syncing" when I apply the Enable-Disk change, there is no discrenable effect on the iPod (e.g., "Do Not Disconnect," or lighting up)).
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  • Can't enable disk use for restored shuffle

    My shuffle stopped playing music in March. I continued using it as a removable disk. I tried the restore utility and it worked - now my shuffle plays music again. However the latest iTunes (7.0.1 and 7.0.2) has no checkbox to enable disk use for when the Shuffle is connected. The checkbox is there for a 5G iPod but not for the Shuffle.
    So - now it works as an iPod but no longer works as a disk. What is going on here? How can I enable disk use?

    iTunes 7.0.2 is still displaying that checkbox for both of our local Shuffles.
    Perhaps you just need to scroll down to find it. If it's actually not there then I'd have to think that this is an iTunes question, not an iPod one, and might be better placed in those forums.

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    I've recently upgraded my Ipod software to 3.1 and Itunes to 6. I've followed the tutorial to make the Ipod be a hard drive and when I click on Ipod in Itunes and go down to the Ipod icon in the lower right corner and click on that, it does NOT look like the screen on the tutorial and on the screen that I see, "enable disk use" is greyed out. I'm trying to troubleshoot why my synching contacts has allowed duplicates as well as loading in emails, which I don't want. But first I need to figure out why I can't enable disk use.

    I can relate...sort of! My iTunes doesn't even HAVE that option. Can you believe it??? It's a brand new (although outdated) 40gb HP iPod, and I'm running HP version of iTunes 6. The manual says how I should enable (configure) the iTunes for use as hard disk--but it failed to tell me that no freaking icon would appear in that little corner. FRUSTRATED
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  • Windows always "enables disk mode"

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    When docking the iPod, XP always mounts the iPod assigning it a drive letter, even though in iTunes, I do not have the "enable disk use" option checked.
    I can check the "enable disk use", hit "apply" then uncheck "enable disk use" and apply it again and the disk use is not enabled. However, the next time I dock the iPod, it reverts back to the default mode of having the disk use enabled, even though that option is not checked in iTunes.
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    If you have an iPod in manual mode, enable disk use is selected as well, by default. The only way to remove that would be to put the iPod into automatic mode (uncheck "manually manage music" first).
    If you have an iPod in automatic mode, and you sync it to iTunes, when iTunes says that the update is complete and it is OK to disconnect, and the iPod is no longer flashing the Do Not Disconnect screen, the iPod is essentially ejected from your system which is why you would no longer see it in Windows with a drive letter on it. It will continue to show in your Device Manager simply because it is physically connected to your computer.
    Windows sometimes pre-determines what some drive letters are going to be assigned to. If you're getting different behaviors on different computers, this could be a sign that one PC has the drive letter already assigned to something else (even if the same letter is used on both computers). You could try changing the drive letters on various computers (enable disk use FIRST, through iTunes).
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499
    This may unify the behavior on both computers, but again, there's no way to connect an iPod to a Windows computer without it getting a drive letter at some point.
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  • Enable Disk Mode

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    I am able to add photos and contact without diskmode... but curious to add calender and notes.
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    I can relate...sort of! My iTunes doesn't even HAVE that option. Can you believe it??? It's a brand new (although outdated) 40gb HP iPod, and I'm running HP version of iTunes 6. The manual says how I should enable (configure) the iTunes for use as hard disk--but it failed to tell me that no freaking icon would appear in that little corner. FRUSTRATED
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  • Can't Enable Disk Use

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    Duh. Pressing the "Apply" button at the bottom right corner of the iTunes window likely would have done the trick too.

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    On a Mac OS X that I had to restore previously. Music, but not playlists, were recovered. Haven't synced shuffle since and am trying now.
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