Force Reboot and Disk Boot to Restore Non Mounting iPods

My 3rd Nano 3G worked great until I added Calendar and Contact Synching. After that the crashing came back, and I could not get it to mount even though the disk mode was displayed on the screen.
After much head scratching, I looked up on the diagnostics and found a way to force it into basic disk mode:
- press Select and Menu to RESET, when the Apple shows:
- press Select and Start/Stop to force the USB disk mode, you will notice the screen looks different from the standard connection mode.
After that I was able to Restore to wipe the iPod and put the regular content back on. I will avoid photos, contacts, and calendar for now.
Saved myself another trip to the friendly Apple store...

I assume you've figure out that iTunes does NOT work for syncing calendars+contacts (even though it's supposed to). I went back to my old iGadget to do this and more. I highly recommend checking it out @ www.ipodsoft.com

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- Next try DFU mode.
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after doing that with successful results, go and reinstall Mountain lion.
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Some of the information below has subsequently appeared in a document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
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