IPod as USB or Storage Unit.

Yo Over There! here´s my question,i understand very well that a Windows formatted iPod can be read and managed in Mac Plattform, the deal is this: after i Windows Formatted my iPod, it works great between this 2 plattforms (in 2 computers i´ve got wich have Mac OS and Windows Xp each) But by the time i go on a third computer (wichever it is, anywhere with Windows Xp) I get the "new hardware found assistant", so it limits me to use mi iPod as an USB on anywhere, imagine yourself "installing" everytime Windows hardware update so you can transfer data... its quite boring when you just want to transfer 2 or 3 docs from school or just a few jpg to get them to your Pc. hope now you get my point, THANX A LOT!!! Hope u get my idea..

You should be able to just cancel the installation. Then go to My Computer and it should be there.
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What you could do firstly is to clean your registry using the freeware software called CCleaner (Google for that).
Install it and clean your OS and the registry entries.
After cleaning access the device manager and remove all USB root hubs and all USB Host controllers from the device list and reboot the notebook.
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ok so i can't charge my ipod and the computer doesn't even recognize that i have connect the ipod. so i went here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
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