Ipod nano now showing up in iTunes...Restore help?

My iPod nano isn't showing up in itunes...but i need to restore it, because it's formatted for a windows system, and i need it to work with my new mac. I've read the instructions on how to restore, but i cant even do that since my ipod wont show up in itunes in the first place. what happened to that programm you could download to restore an ipod? does anyone know what i can do??? thanks in advance!

Try putting your iPod into disk mode, then connect it to your computer to restore it through iTunes. Is it recognized now?
Also, be sure to try all the suggestions here:
The Five R's
iPod missing in iTunes and Mac desktop
iPod does not appear in iPod Updater or iTunes in Mac OS X
I hope that helps you.
-Kylene

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SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!!! i would reeeallly like to avoid having it serviced. THank you!
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I would try formatting your iPod then restoring it again. If that doesnt work, just post.

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I unplugged and plugged my ipod several times, but nothing was fixed. I even changed the cable and did the same, but still, nothing happened. I tried resetting my ipod and then plugging it in, but nothing was fixed. then i put the ipod on disk mode and THEN tried to see if it would show up, but it still wasnt fixed.
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Canned response, so some of the below stuff you already tried, so ignore those ones...
Start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
iPod shows up in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363
iPod missing in "My Computer" or in iTunes for Windows
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
Also this semi-recent interesting post by a user here for a work around when an iPod is in the "recovery mode" looping state...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1679535&tstart=0
Cheers,
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My mom has a 4GB 1st generation nano and I've been trying to add new songs via iTunes. I have tried all the suggestions for "iPod appears in Windows but not iTunes" article and I still cannot get her ipod to show up in iTunes. The computer I'm trying to get the ipod to work on is a desktop computer running Windows XP. I tried my mom's ipod on my laptop computer thinking maybe it was a problem with the ipod or the cable. It worked just fine. I have Windows 7 running an identical version of iTunes. I'm a grad student and I'm just home for the summer. I need solve this problem and fix my mom's ipod so it will work on her own computer while I'm away. Is there anything else I can do to get her iPod to show up in iTunes?

have you tried to reset the ipod?

Ipod nano not showing up in itunes and getting message about problem with this drive, ipod nano not showing up in itunes and getting message about problem with this drive

My ipod nano has been working fine for at least three years. All of a sudden I get two messages. First, "there is a problem with this drive, scan and fix it".
And, an Ipod has been detected but can't be identified properly. It's a 6th generation nano and I have Windows 8. Any thoughts?

Hello, oakbay.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is an article that I would recommend going through when experiencing this issue.
iPod nano: Error message saying that iPod 'could not be identified properly'
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3218
Cheers,
Jason H.

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This was happening to me, too. It started when I upgraded to iOS 6.
My iPod Nano still worked when hooked up to my PC with Windows 7 and iTunes 10.7.0.21. I hooked the USB cable up to another USB port on my PC and after ten seconds or so, iTunes was able to detect an iPod in recovery mode. I allowed it to restore the iPod and now it's working again.
It's a baffling solution, because the other iPod was working just fine hooked up to the other USB port.
After restoring the iPod and restoring my backup, I tried hooking the USB cable back up to the other USB port. It still works, even on the port where it had problems earlier. Go figure.
After all this, my iPod touch 4th generation is running iOS 6 successfully.

VERY unstable iPod Nano (crashes every time in iTunes) plz help!

Hi Folks,
As I wrote earlier in this thread, the iPod nano I bought for my GF (and the one before that) suffered from the 'updater bug'. At least I know now how to revive it, thanks to the great tips of a few users here, but it's a nuisance that the nano(s) tend to crash every time I want to add some music to it via iTunes. Not to say it's absurd for a mp3 player in this category to have so many bugs apparently.
I looked up the computer's system log, and it appears it registers a 'disk' warning, logged as 'event 51' every time the iPod is connected to my notebook. If it's not connected, it never gives such a warning. When you click on the warning it states: "fault discovered on appliance \Device\Harddisk1\D during a file exchange operation". [NB: my OS is in Dutch, so I translated it as best I could, it may not be the exact text it'd be in English.]
What usually happens is that the iPod 'freezes' at the moment I manually add songs to it. Subsequently I get the familiar "use iTunes to reset your iPod" message on the nano's screen, and I have to go through the whole formatting/reset procedure again, as described in the other thread I mentioned above. I had some succes adding music with the 'auto sinc' option, but nevertheless, it crashed again when I wanted to update the music on the nano, still using the 'auto sinc'.
So every which way I want to add music, the iPod crashes! Only after a full format/restore operation it sometimes accepts music, but as soon as I want to add/update the music on the iPod nano again it crashes...
As said, this behaviour is very annoying as well as time consuming, and I'm on the verge of returning the iPod to ask my money back. But as it's a gift, I'd rather see it working like it's supposed to work.
Many thanks in advance for your help, it'd be most welcome!
Some facts and figures:
- The nano is updated to V 1.2 using updater 2006-06-28 -
- iTunes is updated to V 6.5 -
- I use a Travelmate 800 notebook with Win XP Pro [fully updated except SP2]
- I did try connecting the nano to different USB ports (3) with no notable difference.
And here's the original text of the warning:
Type gebeurtenis: Waarschuwing
Bron van gebeurtenis: Disk
Categorie van gebeurtenis: Geen
Gebeurtenis-ID: 51
Datum: 20-7-2006
Tijd: 7:19:04
Gebruiker: n.v.t.
Computer: ACTM
Beschrijving:
Er is een fout ontdekt op apparaat \Device\Harddisk1\D tijdens een wisselbestandsbewerking.
Zie Help en ondersteuning op http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp voor meer informatie.
Gegevens:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 aa 39 0a 23 00 00 00 .ª9.#...
0028: 79 95 00 00 00 00 00 00 y......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0f 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 f1 5e 88 ba 02 82 ..ñ^º.
0058: 00 00 00 00 00 76 e0 fd .....vàý
0060: 00 00 00 00 d5 1c 85 11 ....Õ..
0068: 28 00 11 85 1c d5 00 00 (...Õ..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Hi Folks,
As I wrote earlier in this thread, the iPod nano I bought for my GF (and the one before that) suffered from the 'updater bug'. At least I know now how to revive it, thanks to the great tips of a few users here, but it's a nuisance that the nano(s) tend to crash every time I want to add some music to it via iTunes. Not to say it's absurd for a mp3 player in this category to have so many bugs apparently.
I looked up the computer's system log, and it appears it registers a 'disk' warning, logged as 'event 51' every time the iPod is connected to my notebook. If it's not connected, it never gives such a warning. When you click on the warning it states: "fault discovered on appliance \Device\Harddisk1\D during a file exchange operation". [NB: my OS is in Dutch, so I translated it as best I could, it may not be the exact text it'd be in English.]
What usually happens is that the iPod 'freezes' at the moment I manually add songs to it. Subsequently I get the familiar "use iTunes to reset your iPod" message on the nano's screen, and I have to go through the whole formatting/reset procedure again, as described in the other thread I mentioned above. I had some succes adding music with the 'auto sinc' option, but nevertheless, it crashed again when I wanted to update the music on the nano, still using the 'auto sinc'.
So every which way I want to add music, the iPod crashes! Only after a full format/restore operation it sometimes accepts music, but as soon as I want to add/update the music on the iPod nano again it crashes...
As said, this behaviour is very annoying as well as time consuming, and I'm on the verge of returning the iPod to ask my money back. But as it's a gift, I'd rather see it working like it's supposed to work.
Many thanks in advance for your help, it'd be most welcome!
Some facts and figures:
- The nano is updated to V 1.2 using updater 2006-06-28 -
- iTunes is updated to V 6.5 -
- I use a Travelmate 800 notebook with Win XP Pro [fully updated except SP2]
- I did try connecting the nano to different USB ports (3) with no notable difference.
And here's the original text of the warning:
Type gebeurtenis: Waarschuwing
Bron van gebeurtenis: Disk
Categorie van gebeurtenis: Geen
Gebeurtenis-ID: 51
Datum: 20-7-2006
Tijd: 7:19:04
Gebruiker: n.v.t.
Computer: ACTM
Beschrijving:
Er is een fout ontdekt op apparaat \Device\Harddisk1\D tijdens een wisselbestandsbewerking.
Zie Help en ondersteuning op http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp voor meer informatie.
Gegevens:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 aa 39 0a 23 00 00 00 .ª9.#...
0028: 79 95 00 00 00 00 00 00 y......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0f 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 f1 5e 88 ba 02 82 ..ñ^º.
0058: 00 00 00 00 00 76 e0 fd .....vàý
0060: 00 00 00 00 d5 1c 85 11 ....Õ..
0068: 28 00 11 85 1c d5 00 00 (...Õ..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

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bought an ipod nano, upgraded Itunes to version 11 running on Windows 8.
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