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I am having a similiar problem to many peoples. Early this morning I connected my iPod and there were no problems, later in the day I tried and for no apparent reason XP will not recognize it. Not only this but it will also not charge when connected to the computer. Thinking it was just my iPod, I tried the other iPod in my house on a different profile with a different library and the same problem occured.
I have tried restarting the computer, resetting the ipod, uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling it, and I also tried to use the restore feature but since XP will not recognize the iPod, neither will the updater.
I do not believe it is the USB cable or ports I am using because when I connect the USB to the iPod the iPod will turn on. I could very easily be wrong but I really don't think it is the USB.
I have not loaded the latest updater, but I do have the latest iTunes. So, it must be that in the span of about ten hours my computer malfunctioned, causing it to simply not read iPods?
Any help and/or solutions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading.

Matt,
Can you try to back date your XP by doing with the system store
If not works then put your iPod in Disk Mode and hope it got mount

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