Ipod not being recognized by comp or itunes.

its not being recognize and the prob is not the usb port itself(flashdrives, cameras,ect will work) the comp is a dell and when i do connect it just charges and stuff no actually activity with the comp

I may have found the problem - a corrupted piece of music.
Background: My wife's iPod had been giving me fits. Tried syncing it at home and also here on my work computer with the same results...the dreaded I/O error message. It was still under warranty so I sent back to Apple - they returned it citing no problems with the device. When I then tried to sync again same results.
With iTunes off and the iPod connected, I had to reformat the iPod using My Computer>right click Manage>then click on Disk Management. When the iPod shows up in the right hand screen, right click on it and then format. (This will delete everything on the device but if you cant read it what good is it anyway?) You will get a message that the format cannot be completed. Ignore this message. Disconnect the Ipod.
With the iPod disconnected, start iTunes. Break your library up into separate playlists like genre, artist, whatever, just so you have it broken up into smaller groups. When you sync later your going to want to sync one playlist at a time until you find the offending group. When finished, leave iTunes running then go ahead and connect your iPod. iTunes will tell you it has found an iPod in recovery mode. Go ahead and restore. When completed, your iPod should restart and be recognized by iTunes. If it does not, physically unplug it then replug it. Do not sync your entire library. Sync only one playlist - then check your iPod. Continue until you find the playlist upon which the I/O error rears its ugly head. Make note of which one that is...then start over with the whole process again.
This may not work for everyone and it sure is a **** of a lot of trouble. ABBA seems to be the culprit on this one and it is a legit mp3 rip of something we own.

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If you go into your device manager, is there a little red x or yellow exclamation point next to the necessary drivers?
Right click and select Update Driver Software.
Click Browse My Computer and enter in C:\Windows\System32
Windows will find the iPod and so will iTunes!
YAY for music and stuff!
This took me about a week to unearth, but it was worth it, and I felt it should be shared
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1. Try these five steps (known as the five Rs) and it would conquer most iPod issues.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
2. Try to put the iPod into Disk Mode if it fails to appear on the desktop
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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3. Try to wait 30 minutes while iPod is charging.
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5. Try another known-good FireWire or USB port on your computer .
6. Try to disconnect all devices from your computer's FireWire and USB ports.
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“Then I cam across this special Diganostics Mode that you can get to by resetting and then while the Apple is showing pressing the Select and backwards keys simultaneously. It bring up and weird Diagnostic utility witha a abunch of tests. Here is what I did
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I have just read an interesting solution about the Sad iPod, it does make sense but the warranty will be waived once you open the iPod, I would not do it myself as I am not good on doing this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=412033&tstart=0
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http://www.kokopellimusic.us/KM_instructions.htm

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