Help on Restoring Ipod Mini

I have recieved a Ipod min (4gig) from a friend of mine. It didnt come with any of the cables, tho it came with a Belkin Powerdock. He gave it to me, telling me it wouldnt charge. I managed to get it to charge, i could even listen to the music and access itunes. But it was running really slugish, so i thought... why not restore it, and update it? well....when i restored it... i now permanently have a little image of a AC adapter being plugged into a wall. I dont have a AC adapter, and i have NO idea on where to get one...
Today, i bought a wall adapter, but its not AC, you plug the usb into the Ipod and then into the outlet thing and that is suposed to work, but i still get that image. I even tried the... sketchy thing... idno i saw it in another thread.
Any help would be appreciated! ....

I got it from Target. I purchased a car charger just before then, because i was also told that was suposed to work too, but it didn't and before anyone suggests this, i dont live ANYWHERE near a ipod store.
the adapter i bought, its a small white box, that plugs into the wall, and it has a USB socket on the back, the adapter came with all the cords i needed. When i plugged it in, i thought it would work, but it still shows me that image.
retrying the reset...? well.... i would but my computer wont recognize the ipod anymore...

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Can't Restore Ipod Mini

Hi can anyone help with this ?
My daughter's ipod mini has folder with !mark. My computer doesn't recognise it in normal mode, when I set to disc mode and try to restore the software I get a message to say 'can't mount ipod'. It's fully charged.
I am stuck and would be grateful for any help

If the iPod is recognized by the computer whilst in disk mode, you can try changing the drive letter by going to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Disk Manager with the iPod attached and right clicking on your iPod and choosing Reassign. Make it a much higher letter, like I:
Note this can happen when your boot drive is not C:, or when you have a network drive that conflicts with the iPod assignment, or when you have other portable storage devices that are sometimes attached. It's always safe to move the iPod well away from the lower drive letters.
Do also try other ports, preferrably those on the rear.

Cant Restore ipod mini

My Ipod mini has the folder with an exclamation point icon on it and I have tried all the solutions apple provided and none have worked to solve the problem. So I tried to restore my ipod mini and even that didnt work. I switch my ipod mini into disk mode so that the ipod updater software can recognize it but as soon as the updater software connects to the ipod mini, the ipod then restarts itself and the updater software is no longer connected to the ipod and goves me the error "cant mount ipod". I have tried restoring it several different times on different USB ports several times. I am stumped and have no idea how to solve this problem and help would be appreciated.

If your iPod is recognized in Explorer, close the updater program and try this.
Click on start/control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management/right click on the iPod and select “change drive letter”.
Choose something lower down the alphabet, say “M”, or something similar.
A drive letter conflict can sometimes cause the 'can't mount iPod' message.
Then try the restore again.

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I've turned my ipod mini on today after not using it for a week. I plugged it in to the pc via the usb cable and itunes popped up as usual. My ipod wasn't on the source list and a box appeared saying that itunes didn't recognise my ipod and I had to go to software updater to reset it. There was no frowny face or all the other icons that appear when there's a problem. All the songs and folders I had on the ipod had disappeared even though they were still on itunes. After spending almost 2hrs downloading the new version and updater (dial-up) it still didn't recognise it.
I tried to reset it but got the message "ipod updater...... can't install firmware on connected ipod. The ipod's hardware and the updater firmware are not compatible".
I've done held the menu and select button to restore factory settings etc and its still the same.
It's constantly charging whilst plugged in and nothing I do will get my songs back on the ipod.
It was fine a week ago when I last used it and can't understand where all the gremlins have appeared from. No one else has used it.
Someone out there please help.

How were you able to plug in your iPod, your iTunes opened because of it but then it says it didn't recognize it? LOL Funny..
iPod not recognized by iTunes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61771

HELP WITH RESTORING IPOD PLEASE

This is actually a problem with an iPod mini, but I am really hoping someone can help me and that it might relate to problems with other iPods. I posted this on an iPod mini board:
I'm having trouble restoring my iPod mini. When you turn it on, it has a folder with a ! on it, I don't know why, but this is what happened after I tried to reset it, so now I'm trying to restore it and see if that works. But when I connect the iPod to the computer, windows recognizes it, but most of the time the Updater doesn't. I've now gotten it to recognize it most of the time so that it allows me to click on "restore." But then it says "Can't mount iPod." Does anyone know what I should do? On most of the help pages I've found it says to try changing the iPod to disk mode, but I can't. Also, this article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499 seems like it would help, but the iPod doesn't show up in the top part so I can change its drive letter, it only shows up on the bottom part as Disk 1, Removeable (F:), Unreadable with no other details. Help me please!!!!
Thank you!

If you keep seeing the folder with a ! on it, then check out his link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61003
Hope it helps
-Taps-

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Have started to have problems with my IPod Mini. When I try to restore software to factory settings, ITunes closes and nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi Keyyyyyy,
Might you be able to try something like the process listed on this forum ? :
http://www.ipodwizard.net/showthread.php?t=7207 - one post specifically mentions this page and program to help : http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/reinit.php
I've never had to use this, does anyone else know if this will help ?
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My daughter gave my wife her old 4GB iPod mini. I attempted to connect it to my wife's G4 (and my G5 as a second test). Nothing. The iPod screen indicates the exclamation point plus folder icon. I have tried all 5 recommended solutions from Apple. Again nothing. iTunes still will not recognize the iPod so I cannot do a restore. I have 2 days to sort this out before my wife leaves for a trip. Help!

Have you seen this post about the folder icon and exclamation point on your iPod?
Mitch: Exclamation point and folder and nothing else
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Major help need with ipod mini

My ipod mini turns on. The menu appears, however when I click to play music nothing happens, it's frozen at that point. I have reset it, lost my music and tried to download my playlist again and it will not download. Appreciate any advice.

Strange, doing a reset will no erase data in your iPod, but restore does. Suggest that you plug your iPod with your PC and open the iPod updater (u may need to download for the latest version) and do a restore, for further info read the following .. it is really very helpful
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68ae8668

Restore ipod mini freezes itunes and doesn't restore

I can't manage any music on my ipod mini with itunes. So I decided to try the restore...Everything goes smoothly until I get to the progress bar where itunes is "restoring" my ipod. After an hour of waiting and the bar sitting at about a millimeter completed I close itunes. I've also updated, and reinstalled itunes many times. My music is still on my ipod and it still charges and works perfectly except when I want to manage my music. Please help :P

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Help. I can't find any help for my ipod mini!!

Hi
About a year ago i bought my ipod mini. Now it's just a little over a year old and halfway through a song it freezes and makes an internal clicking noise. Sometimes i have to reset it or in like 45secs it restarts the song where it left off. In the past few days the icon with unhappy ipod has been popping up, so i keep resetting it and now it just clicks w//out even playing the songs at all, or it will click and just display the songs names and go through them all without playing.
Is this a battery issue, or is my ipod toast?
since my warranty is up, to send it in for repair is just idiotic since it'd probably be the same as purchasing another ipod/mp3 player.
Somebody help!

I'm just interested in knowing whether or not it's my
battery or if soemthing is broken inside.
It depends. (Although I doubt it is your battery).
The restore would tell us that. Try a restore.
btabz

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My iPod Mini shows up in Windows, but instantly says 'Do not disconnect' even when fully charged. iTunes doesn't recognise it and the Updater usually hangs. I've tried everything including the 5 R's and have followed the steps in this article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716. When I use the Windows 'safely remove hardware' function, I get an error message saying Windows was trying to write data to the device - I can't see any way of stopping this, even after removing iTunes and the Updater from the PC. The last step offered by Apple is to reinstall Windows, but I don't see why I should have to do this as Norton SystemWorks tells me everything is working fine. Since quite a few other people seem to have been having similar problems recently, could this be to do with an automatically-installed Windows update causing a conflict?
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my IPod mini is about 5 yrs old and still great up until now. I never did updates on my itunes and ipod but never had a problem.
I finally did upgrade to the newest version and some of my music will not show on my ipod. and of course... the songs that won't tansfer are my shared songs. i understand that they cannot be transfered using the new updated version.
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I am not familiar at all with Vista, therefore I would like to make the following suggestion
Find another computer uninstall the iTunes and iPod updater, connect your iPod with the computer and do the format (not Restore)
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Hope you can see your iPod there and right click on the iPod
Choose “Format”. Ensure the settings are at “Default” and that “Quick Format” is not checked
Now select “Format”
Once it has completed, install the iTunes and iPod updater from the CD software came with your iPod.
Connect your iPod with the computer, hope the iPod updater will recognize it and click Restore

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I had to restart the player in disk mode to be able to connect it/see it in iTunes. When attempting to restore my iPod mini 4GB, iTunes 9.1 (79) lies saying that the player 'cannot be restored because it contains files that are in use by another application.' This player was loaded 3 years ago. The computer is a Mac mini PPC 1.25 now using OS 10.4.11. iTunes is unable to access the playlist. Since I'm not sure erasing the iPod with Disk Utility would do any good, please advise. Fernando

Hello macarra,
Have you tried resetting your iPod first and then re-attempted to restore it via iTunes? To do this, toggle the hold switch on and off, then press and hold the Menu and Select (Center) buttons together for a couple of seconds until the Apple logo appears.
B-rock

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You may need to format the iPod for use with Windows.
Try this instead of using the supplied installation CD.
Download the iPod Updater, install this to your computer, restart the computer, run the Updater, then connect your iPod when prompted (not before), then follow the set up procedure.
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