Changing startup drive

I have recently upgraded my PowerMac G5 Quad to Leopard. I have also added a drive internally and set it up as a Mirrored RAID. When I tried to boot from my backup drive which is a Firewire 800 connection it rebooted as Tiger. I finally got Leopard reinstalled and erase my Firewire drive and used Time Machine to back it up in Leopard. Now when I go to System Preferences and access startup drive my Firewire drive is no longer available as a start up disk. What happened? Is there something I need to change. I erased it because I do not want to restore back to Tiger, if I need to restore I want to do it in Leopard. Any ideas. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Your Time Machine backups are on the Firewire disk now, correct?
Time Machine backups are not bootable -- they're not a "clone." They are a complex structure of multiple hard links, so Time Machine can do fast periodic "incremental" backups of what's new or changed, but have each backup be, in effect, a full backup. You can restore from them, either selectively or your entire system; if you restore your entire system from any backup, that is bootable.
You might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

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Problem changing startup drive?

I have a G4/dual 533/800+RAM/OSX 10.3.9. Three internal drives: 1 with 2 sections, 1 with 5 sections (one of which is the current startup drive, and 1 unsectioned. System preferences does not recognize the remaining 4 sections of the 5-section drive or the unsectioned drive (which I would like to be the new startup drive).
In the "About this Mac" menu, all drives and sections are listed.
Functionally, the computer recognizes all the drives and sections.
I need to change the startup because I am attempting to install iLife '06 and there is not enough room on the current startup to do it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dennisd:
It may be that when you partitioned your partitions were not formatted as bootable drives.
However, to locate drive you want to use as a startup, from a cold start hold the Option key while you hit the power button. The desktop will come up with all the available bootable drives it finds. If it is does not, hit the refresh button (circular arrow) and see if it comes up with the drive for which you are looking. Then select the drive you want and click the directional arrow.
If your drive does not come up you need to set up your drive as a bootable drive.
Good luck.
cornelius
Pismo400, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS (10.4.4) Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

Changing boot drive at startup

I have a loan of a PBG3, 300 MHz running System 9.2.
I have a scsi adaptor for it.
I have multiple scsi drives, both external and internal from (1) a IIsi and (2) a performa 6300 CD.
I could not get the IIsi to boot. However, the drive was spinning up, so I was hopeful that if I put it in an external enclosure and attached it to a computer that talks scsi, that it would come up. It tries to. In fact, it tries to snatch the boot from the PBG3, whereupon I get a message saying that the PBG3 can't run that old an operating system.
I just went and looked at the pdf of the manual that is on the apple website. It did not deal with this issue. Does anyone out there know if there is a set of keys that I can hold down to force boot drive selection at startup, before the external tries to hijack the boot? I checked, and the startup drive appears to be listed as the powerbook. At least, it is selected when I look at the control panel.
I plan to go through the same process with the performa drive. I'm pretty sure it's running 7.6, (the IIsi probably has 7.1 on it), so I'll probably have the same problem.
Sharon

It tries to. In fact, it tries to snatch the boot from the PBG3, whereupon I get a message saying that the PBG3 can't run that old an operating system.
Macs will seldom run any OS older that what they shipped with. The oldest OS shipped with the earliest Wallstreets G3s was 8.1; yours probably shipped with something newer. If you really need to boot those drives, they will have to be attached to an older Mac.
According to the MacTracker database, the 6300 has an ATA drive. Much easier to deal with if you only need to recover files. A gadget like this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/
allows you to connect a bare drive to any USB-equipped computer.

How do I install a new startup drive

My startup drive on my Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5 is full and I need to replace it with a 2T drive. How do I go about changing over the data and rebooting with the new drive?

Put the new drive into one of the empty bays.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your new hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Quit DU and boot from the Recovery HD:
Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
         button.
     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
         to the Destination entry field.
     5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
         the Source entry field.
     6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new disk drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

Trying to link existing mac pro time machine backup to cloned startup drive

Hi
I have recently had to replace my startup drive on my Mac Pro as it was failing. I used SuperDuper! for this, and the clone is working fine as my new startup drive. I then went to run my next time machine backup (i backup to a time capsule), and time machine connected to the existing backup but wanted to backup everything as if backing up for the first time.
So i did a bit of researching around, and found this hint:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090213071015789
which changes the UUID registered with time machine, from the old drive to the new drive, so that it thinks that it's the old drive and carries on where it left off. i followed the instructions in the hint carefully and everything seemed to go right (i had to copy fsaclctl from an old leopard backup as it is missing in snow leopard). but when i ran the next backup again time machine wanted to backup everything.
towards the bottom of the hint, there is a comment about the UUID generated under snow leopard, as follows:
"I'm concerned that the output of xattr showed 37 hex pairs, not the 32 hex digits and dashes. By the looks -- I've forgotten all my ASCII -- it is a hex representation of the actual hex UUID (43 41 ...) and its dashes (2D), terminated with 00. That's arguably the same as the UUID, but not quite close enough to give me the warm & fuzzies"
So if anyone can help me get this working right, using the method described in the hint, or some other method, i would be very grateful. Seems like my scenario isn't that uncommon (changing a startup drive), and it baffles me that there isn't a more straightforward way to make this work.
thanks
nick

chadnchady wrote:
3. I am having troubles copying files(iphoto library) from my timemachine backup on to my imac.
That's correct. Time Machine backups retain the original ownership and permissions. So one user doesn't have access to another user's data. Usually, that's a good thing.
4. I don't need anything else except a few particular files, but everytime i try drag or copy it gives me the 'no privilege/permission error'.
Your best bet may be to use +Migration Assistant+ to migrate the user account and selected data. Then log on as that user and use/copy the data as desired. See the pink box in #19 of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

No startup drive found?

Having trouble with startup drives. First one (my original startup disk) couldnt be found after a software upgrade (not sure which or what, I always accept when I am told there is one to instal). Booted from System DVD and re installed OS 10.6.8 on another drive. All was working again until moments ago when I zapped the PRam and now this drive isnt launching OS. Something is up. Anyone experience this in the last few days? I fear that if I go through the DVD install, and data transfer that this may happen again.
Thanks

Boot to the Installer DVD, but answer only the "what Language" question and wait a quarter minute for the MenuBar to be drawn.
Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu.
Select your drive Mechanism (eg Hitachi...) and click "Repair Disk". Then choose the Boot Volume (Macintosh HD if you did not change it) and click "Repair Disk". Post any unresolved error message here for further assistance.
Then select the Boot Volume and click "Repair Permissions" you can safely ignore these messages unless they appear in RED.
Restart and hold down the Option key. Every bootable drive should be shown. Select the one you want and proceed.

Startup Drive has a Question Mark on it and Wheel is spinning

After I completed the installation of Leopard, my Powerbook G4 would not reboot properly. It only gets as far as showing my desktop, without any startup drives or the DVD. It is all blank. I can see information at the top of the finder. The wheel continues to spin. Because of the spinning, I can't access anything in the finder or the desktop, etc. But I am able to go down to the dashboard and open Safari, Word and my documents. But my finder on the top right continues to spin whenever I put it up there. I see many of the features of 10.5. If I leave a program open, I can access the left side of the finder. When I go to force quit, I see that the finder is not responding. I relaunch it, but then I have the same problem, the spinning wheel. Tried to shut down, but nothing, just the spinning wheel. I am able to shut it off by holding down the start up button. Help!!

Perform a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
See if you can boot into recovery.
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Select Disk Utility>First Aid and run Verify and Repair.
Any changes?
Ciao.

Mavericks Startup Drive read only

I can't find details on this anywhere. I waited a while to upgrade because Lion apparently did not play well with Adobe CS5. Mavericks, on the other hand, is supposed to. (I may upgrade to CS6 soon, but I like "owning"" my software and being able to use it even if a server somewhere shuts down.)
I upgraded to Mavericks today, and now my Startup drive is read-only. Apps that update their files under system permissions continue to write OK, but apps that write under my account permissions are kicking back write errors.
Any reason why I can't do anything on my HDD? And what can I do to fix it? I upgraded from 10.6.8. I see some people had similar issues with Lion, but no one seemed to offer a usable "fix."
I can manually change the permissions, but crawling through all of the folders to make that change would prove very tedious. Is there a better way?
Any help would be much appreciated.

I'd recommend booting into the recovery partition and doing a permissions repair
Restart and hold "alt" until you see a list of bootable volumes. Then click the one labeled "Recovery"

Can't use MS keyboard to change startup sequence

I'm using a MS Ergonomic Natural Keyboard 4000 with my Mac Pro (10.6.1); I can't select alternate sequences during the startup (Option to choose the startup device, or Cmd-Shift-Option-Delete to automatically select a FW external drive).
One place told me that third-party devices weren't recognized early enough in the startup sequence to change the startup drive, this is sort of what MS also told me, they said I needed to make sure the USB keyboard option (or something similarly named) was activated in the BIOS…(do Macs even have BIOS?)
Anyway if someone knows of a workaround (other than changing the startup drive in the System Preferences) that would be great.

That ability is reserved for Macs that don't already have a built-in optical drive.
I bet you probably looked at some of the guides online telling you to edit a plist file that supposedly unlocks the ability to create a bootable USB drive on a Mac that has a SuperDrive. But that's all it does. It doesn't change anything else about the process of Boot Camp Assistant creating the partition and requiring installation be done with the SuperDrive. All that modification does is literally "un-gray" a checkbox.
Is it annoying that the SuperDrive must be used? No doubt, especially since this restriction was in not in place for older Macs. This is something that Apple would have to address via an SMC or other update, but the odds of that happening are less than those of you winning the Power Ball. It's a restriction you'll have to live with, unless you want to "upgrade" to a Retina display model.

IMac G3 freezing after changing startup disk?

Hello.
I bought a iMac G3 I few months ago just for a hobby and have been playing around on it.
This morning I noticed two other previous system folders in the system folder.
I then opened "startup disk" (I think that is the name) and chose to restart with "Previous system folder".
When it re-booted it opened up differently, had a new background and made sound effects when clicking and scrolling.
I decided to change the startup disc to "Previous system folder1" (which is the other previous system folder)
This time when restarting it booted normally until the desktop icons loaded. The mouse and keyboard froze and then a message popped up saying "To use your internal modem you need to select the country from where you will be using your computer". I try to use the mouse and keyboard to select, "Australia" and then "OK" but as previously started the mouse and keyboard are frozen.
When booting up I can use the mouse and keyboard on the loading screen until it freezes when the desktop appears.
(The computer was working amazingly before I stupidly changed the system folder)
Why is this happening. How do I return to a previous system folder when it keeps freezing.
Here is a youtube video showing you what happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYURgG2W5x4
Please note, I do have all the software CD that came with computer, however for some reason discs won't work on the computer they are unrecognizable.
All keyboard commands do nothing for example holding down shift into safe mode still freezes.
Thanks in advance!
Stewart

I'm not sure what OS you are running here.
There is a way to set what os boots from the firmware. Not sure how.   Look tomorrow. let me know via another post.
For classic, you could try hold the
space bar
then booting. or is it the shift key?
If this is a slot loader, try:
The startup manager will list all of your bootable partitions then give you a choice of which to boot. Hold down the option key then power on. Continue holding down the option key until you see the startup manager. This brings up the startup manager. Click on your hd or disc. Click on right arrow key.
Restore Tiger 10.4 & Leopard 10.5 DVDs are available from Apple by calling 1(800) 275-2273. Have your serial number ready. Have your credit card ready too. There may be a small fee.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0 -- January 20,2013
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24588313#24588313 -- January 22,2014
gical Macintosh Key Sequences
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.pdf
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343
Startup keys
http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/osxstartupkeys.htm
I have a list of magical boot key sequences:
    Key Combinations-- Effect
    * mouse down -- Eject removable media ( I think Boot ROMs prior to 2.4f1 excluded the CD drive )
    * opt -- Bring up OF system picker on New World machines.
             iMac g3 400 or newer machine
    * cmd-opt -- Hold down until 2nd chime, will boot into Mac OS 9 ?
    * cmd-x (or just x?) -- Will boot into Mac OS X if 9 and X are on the same partition and that's the partition you're booting from.
    * cmd-opt-shift-delete -- Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD). This actually forces the system to NOT load the driver for the default volume, which has the side effect mentioned above. For SCSI devices it searches from highest ID to lowest for a partition with a bootable system. Not sure about IDE drives.
    * cmd-opt-shift-delete-# -- Boot from a specific SCSI ID # (# = SCSI ID number)
    * cmd-opt-p-r -- Zap PRAM. Hold down until second chime.
    * cmd-opt-n-v -- Clear NV RAM. Similar to reset-all in Open Firmware.
    * cmd-opt-o-f -- Boot into open firmware
    * cmd-opt-t-v -- Force Quadra AV machines to use TV as a monitor
    * cmd-opt-x-o -- Boot from ROM (Mac Classic only)
    * cmd-opt-a-v -- Force an AV monitor to be recognized as one
    * c -- Boot from CD. If set to boot to X and no CD is present, may boot to 9.
    * d -- Force the internal hard disk to be the startup device
    * n -- Hold down until Mac logo, will attempt to boot from network server (using BOOTP or TFTP)
    * r -- Force PowerBooks to reset the screen
    * t -- Put FireWire machine into FireWire Target Disk mode
    * z -- Attempt to boot using the devalias zip from first bootable partition found
    * shift -- (Classic only) Disable Extensions
    * shift -- (OS X, 10.1.3 and later) Disables login items. Also disables non-essential kernel extensions (safe boot mode)
    * cmd -- (Classic only) Boot with Virtual Memory off
    * space -- (Classic only) Trigger extension manager at boot-up
    * cmd-v -- (OS X only) show console messages during boot
    * cmd-s -- (OS X only) boot into single user mode
Did not work simply 'z'?
You could buy an external DVD drive. It needs to be firewire and bootable by Mac OS. If you have another PPC with firewire, you could try target Disk mode and installed tiger that way.
You need to figure out the level of your firmware before installing 10.2 or greater. ( The PC name for firmware is BIOS. ) Installing 10.2 with a down level firmware will most likely make your iMac unusable and difficult to fix.
What is Open Firmware?
The firmware on a PPC is called Open Firmware. Open Firmware software receives control when you poweron your machine. It does some hardware testing and some hardware configuration then passes control to your version of Mac OS.   It reside on a PROM ( program read only memory ) chip on the logic board.
Figuring out what level of Open Firmware you have?
1) Mac OS 9.x or 8.x, you need to use the Apple System Profiler.
Apple -> Apple System Profiler
2) Mac OS X, use the System Profiler.
Apple -> About This Mac
click on the More Info... tab
click on Hardware
read the Boot ROM Version
3) Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down command+option+o+f
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
On my machine, I have 4.1.9f1.
What firmware do you need?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1395
You can download the firmware from this page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1283
filename: N-iMac_FWUpdate_4.1.9.smi.bin
                avoid   expanding the file on the download computer.
For a slot loading iMac, this article indicates that you need to be running 9.1 or later version of Mac OS Classic.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1283
"The iMac Firmware Update 4.1.9 will only run on iMac computers with slot-loading CD or DVD drives running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local drive. If you are using Mac OS X you must boot from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD, or network disk) prior to following the update instructions."
You can download the Mac OS 9 updates from the Apple site.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387?viewlocale=en_US
For tiger, you need 256meg of memory. A slot loader will take 1gig of memory.
You may need to get more memory.
get the 512meg card(s)
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac/G3_450MHz_500MHz_600MHz_700MHz
Mac OS X 10.4: System requirements
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514
PPC 10.4.11 combo update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl170

How do I choose a default startup drive?

I have two startup drives on my Hard Drive. One is Snow Leopard and the other is Leopard. I need Leopard for some printing issues with Photoshop and Epson. How do I choose a default startup drive? Most of the time I want the Snow Leopard drive at startup but it seems to always start up on Leopard. I need to always hold down the option key at startup. Sometimes I forget.

noondaywitch wrote:
System Preferences > Startup Dive > select the drive with 10.6.x I suspect you may need to do that for both systems. Click the lock to prevent further changes, then do an option-boot and ensure it'll let you start from the other.
Macs store a reference to the default startup drive set in System Preferences > Startup Drive in PRAM, so you don't have to set it individually for each drive or partition -- as long as the selected one is available at startup time, that is the one the Mac will start up from. (Otherwise, it will be the first available one found. If none capable of starting up the Mac are found instead the flashing slashed circle with the question mark in it won't go away, indicating the Mac is still waiting for you to make one available, for instance by powering up an attached external drive or inserting a bootable DVD.)
The option key startup method temporarily overrides this & allows you to choose another drive or partition, but just for that startup -- the next time you start up normally, it will revert to the selected one.
Also, the lock in System Preferences has nothing to do with making preference settings permanent or persistent. It is just a security feature to prevent unauthorized users from making changes from an already logged in user account. For instance, it makes no difference if the lock is closed or open at startup time, because that is before the OS is running or able to check preference file settings stored on disks. During the early stages of the boot process, code resident in firmware checks for depressed keys & buttons before loading the OS from the default source set in PRAM. This is how it decides if it should instead run the Startup Manager (evoked by the option key), first eject a CD or DVD (evoked by the eject key or primary mouse button), or start up from an alternate source like an installer DVD (evoked by the C key).

Trying to change startup disk HELP!

Using alsoft diskwarrior. Changed the startup disk in the preferences to the CD. Now, can't change it back! The computer automatically reverts to the diskwarrior software to boot from...ideas?

Restart the computer and hold the mouse button down to force ejection of the CD. The computer will then start normally. Then open the Startup Drive preference and set the startup drive to the internal drive and click on the Restart button.
In the future you don't need to change the startup disk to boot from a CD/DVD. Simply insert the disc in the optical drive, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the "C" key until the gray startup screen appears. Release the key when the spinning gear appears.
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Opt spacebar gives a "quicklook" at startup drive

i used opt+spacebar to invoke LAUNCHPAD in 10.7.4
after install of ML, the same key combo gives a "quicklook" at the icon....JUST the icon, of the startup drive.
can't find it to change it.
vince

Iko,
Just to eliminate any possibility you have a Lombard with the faulty CPU, download PPC Checker here:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3CARDS/PPCchecker/
If it reports this number...
PowerPC 750L (LoneStar, Rev2.2) Copper G3 PVR = 0x00088202
...you have a CPU that cannot run OSX with memory in the top memory slot; however, 9.x runs just fine with the max of 512MB (2x256) in the memory slots. PPC Checker is a 9.x app and you must be booted to 9.x (CD or HD) to run it. since you have reset the PRAM, I would also reset the power manager.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449

Changing startup disk.. help

I was attempting to gain access to an old external harddrive, so I downloaded a live CD. I changed the startup disk in the system preferences and restarted my computer. To my knowledge this was a one time change, meaning it would only target my DVD drive for one boot. So I used the live CD and I can't seem to eject it from my computer. Also, I can't force it to boot from my harddrive. I know keystrokes can initiate a different boot but nothing seems to work.
Somethings I have tried:
- While turning on the computer....
- option key
- C
- eject button
- Allowing the mac to boot into the live disk and attempting to eject the disk that way
Any help would be great. Let me know if I need to provide any more details. Thanks!

randomacct wrote:
I was attempting to gain access to an old external harddrive, so I downloaded a live CD. I changed the startup disk in the system preferences and restarted my computer. To my knowledge this was a one time change, meaning it would only target my DVD drive for one boot.
that's incorrect. changing startup disk in system preferences is a permanent change, not a one time change.
So I used the live CD and I can't seem to eject it from my computer. Also, I can't force it to boot from my harddrive. I know keystrokes can initiate a different boot but nothing seems to work.
Somethings I have tried:
- While turning on the computer....
- option key
holding option should have worked. what exactly happens when you reboot holding option? it should boot you into startup disk manager.
if this does not happen, try resetting PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
then try option boot again. also, what kind of keyboard are you using? you may want to try a different keyboard, preferably a wired apple keyboard.
- C
- eject button
- Allowing the mac to boot into the live disk and attempting to eject the disk that way
Any help would be great. Let me know if I need to provide any more details. Thanks!

Changing iPod drive letter fixes "could not mount ipod"

So the problem I was having is that although my Windows XP SP2 machine could see my iPod nano as a drive, whenever I tried to use iPod Updater or iTunes, they could not connect/recognize the device. iTunes would simply not see that I had the device, while the updater would freeze for a good 5 - 10 minutes before giving me the "could not mount ipod" error. I tried everything, selective startup, windows update, made sure that I did indeed have USB 2.0 hardware, made sure that when I connected the ipod that Windows Device Manager said it was a "Standard ENHANCED USB Hub," restarted ipodservice, formatted ipod using windows, and probably a few other things. Still, although Windows could see the ipod just fine, apple's software just could not. I could even copy files to and from the device just fine! If only we didn't need iTunes to copy music. :P
Well, one thing I suspected it could be is that with my computer, my primary hard drive (and I only have one) is mysteriously drive letter "D" while when I plugged in my iPod it took on the holy "C" drive letter. Could this be a problem? Possibly, but not likely I thought. So I tried some 3rd party software which emulated the ipod software and I got an error message. First that it appeared my ipod was not formatted (which it was) and second that it "could not create :\ipod_control". First thing I thought was, where is the drive letter? The software isn't even looking for the ipod in C:\, it's looking nowhere! So what I did it changed the ipod's drive letter from C to something else and viola, it worked.
So it seems the iPod may not like it when it is named C, or there was some conflict with the iPod using the C drive letter since, I'll admit, I used to have two hard drives and the other one used to be C. Could also be a bug, who knows.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Ah, the Drive Letter C problem again.
The iPod software and iTunes will not recognize the iPod if it is assigned to drive C. Changing the drive letter to a higher one not used by other drives will solve the problem.
Instructions on how to change the drive letter: Strange iPod behaviour when Windows confuses iPod with network drive

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