How I got my ipdo to work again after the latest updater

Question

after about 20 hours of headaches and listening to everyone's similar problems and trying everything under the rotten apple tree, here's yet another solution that seems to have fixed the problem. will have to wait and see how long.
I went to another computer that has never been tainted by (cr)apple software before. downloaded (do a save to a folder not a run) an earlier ipod updater from here http://www.soft32.com/download_121872.html
I then disabled my network connection and installed the updater. after doing that I got a windows pop-up about rebooting to update my usb drivers. I said no, I prefer microsoft.
it took a couple of tries but I got my ipod restored with nothing on it of course.
I then installed itunes (latest version). It did recognize my ipod and I told it "not to auto update". I played around manually dragging files onto my ipod and it seemed ok so I took it back to the original computer that has my thousands of songs on it. experimented some more with manually updating it. felt it was working fairly well so took a chance at having it auto-update. all seems fine now.
now at the risk of being un-constitutionally censored here's my opinion about the whole scneario.
a) the people at apple are too incompetent to conjure up a "force to upgrade hardware" scheme. sorry, it's simply just that same incompetence that has created the problem. the same incompetence that can't fix the problem. and the same incompetence that ignores the problem. any decent company wouldn't ignore it's customers like this. at least admit the problem and say your working on it.
b) when an apple product works it works...when it doesn't it doesn't. there are no fixes, no solutions. when it breaks it's time to purchase something new. anyone even contemplating sending in their ipod for repair shouldn't. if you are going to dish out that kind of dough you should move away from apple's proprietary stuff and get with the program and move to an industry standard such as mp3.
c) the ipod fad will end like everything else in apple's history. the ipod like every other apple product is a joke. why else after 20 years can they only manage but a tiny percentage of the personal computing market.
d) I'm obviously not a fan of apple, never have been never will be..just had a brief moment of insanity when purchasing my ipod a couple years back. will never happen again.
thanks fellow customers for listening...thanks apple for nothing
hope some of you get to read this before I'm deleted.

Answer 1

after about 20 hours of headaches and listening to
everyone's similar problems and trying everything
under the rotten apple tree, here's yet another
solution that seems to have fixed the problem. will
have to wait and see how long.
I went to another computer that has never been
tainted by (cr)apple software before. downloaded (do
a save to a folder not a run) an earlier ipod updater
from here http://www.soft32.com/download_121872.html
I then disabled my network connection and installed
the updater. after doing that I got a windows pop-up
about rebooting to update my usb drivers. I said no,
I prefer microsoft.
it took a couple of tries but I got my ipod restored
with nothing on it of course.
I then installed itunes (latest version). It did
recognize my ipod and I told it "not to auto update".
I played around manually dragging files onto my ipod
and it seemed ok so I took it back to the original
computer that has my thousands of songs on it.
experimented some more with manually updating it.
felt it was working fairly well so took a chance at
having it auto-update. all seems fine now.
now at the risk of being un-constitutionally censored
here's my opinion about the whole scneario.
a) the people at apple are too incompetent to conjure
up a "force to upgrade hardware" scheme. sorry, it's
simply just that same incompetence that has created
the problem. the same incompetence that can't fix the
problem. and the same incompetence that ignores the
problem. any decent company wouldn't ignore it's
customers like this. at least admit the problem and
say your working on it.
b) when an apple product works it works...when it
doesn't it doesn't. there are no fixes, no
solutions. when it breaks it's time to purchase
something new. anyone even contemplating sending in
their ipod for repair shouldn't. if you are going to
dish out that kind of dough you should move away from
apple's proprietary stuff and get with the program
and move to an industry standard such as mp3.
c) the ipod fad will end like everything else in
apple's history. the ipod like every other apple
product is a joke. why else after 20 years can they
only manage but a tiny percentage of the personal
computing market.
d) I'm obviously not a fan of apple, never have been
never will be..just had a brief moment of insanity
when purchasing my ipod a couple years back. will
never happen again.
thanks fellow customers for listening...thanks apple
for nothing
hope some of you get to read this before I'm deleted.
This worked for me - so far anyway. Thanks