My ipod classic froze in the 'do not disconnect' screen.

I connected my ipod to my computer, and it showed the do not disconnect screen as it always does, but it froze on that screen.
Itunes is not recognising my ipod, and the ipod is doing nothing, even showing the little lock sign if I lock it.
What do I do?

Try holding down menu and the center button for a few seconds, until the apple symbol appears. This has always worked for me

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My ipod is stuck on the do not disconnect screen

I recently found an ipod and i plugged it in to my computer because my mom has an ipod already. After plugging it in it went to the do not disconnect screen. its been stuck this way for 2 days. Is this because my computer does not recognize this new ipod or what any advice..........

Try holding down menu and the center button for a few seconds, until the apple symbol appears. This has always worked for me

How long does it take the 'Do Not Disconnect' screen to disappear?

How long does it take the 'Do Not Disconnect' screen to disappear?
I Just got my ipod nano a week ago. I put maybe 10 songs on there and then today, since I had some time, decided to start creating my library. By the time I decided to stop and plug in my nano so it can update, i had like 219 songs that had to be transferred. I watched each song on iTunes go to the ipod like usual and then my list that comes up when you select "__ ipod" is all grayed out like it's still updating. On the top of the iTunes screen, it says ipod update is complete though, and of course, my ipod has been saying do not disconnect for the past hour and a half with the battery fully charged. Does it really take that long for it to finish synching my songs? I mean I know I had a lot of songs to put on there put geez!

Hi CocoaVixen718
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Try ejecting your iPod from iTunes. You might want to look at Knowledge Base Document #61685 about The "Do Not Disconnect" Message and Knowledge Base Document #93492 explains How to Safely Disconnect the iPod.
Jon

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Hello,
Recently my 1GB nano has been having problems plugging into my computer. When I plug it in, the "Do Not Disconnect" screen comes up but just freezes there. The computer nor iTunes realizes it's there either. I have to unplug it while the screen is still there and reset it. I know the iPod WORKS, since I play it on the docking station I got for Christmas.
This started happening a while after I got iTunes 7. I figured updating it was the problem, so I went back to 6, but apparently that didn't work either. I'm not sure it's the computer, since my friend's 30GB iPod showed up in Explorer (although apparently it needed iTunes 7 to work, so I'm not 100% positive on it yet).
I've just redownloaded iTunes 7 again, but the problem persists... It's making me really angry because I can't put any new music onto it. If anyone can help I'd be SOOOO grateful. ^_^
- Kuro-sama
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Ok, my friend brought over his 30GB again, and he updated it with some stuff I have on my computer. That means it has to be something with my nano, right? It's really confusing me and I want it fixed...
Someone please help. ;_;
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Reset the iPod. (hold down the menu and center button). If that doesn't work, try a restore with the iPod updater.

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TS1410 By mistake I disconnected my iPod Classic when it said Do not disconnect. Now it doesn't appear in iTunes, but it does appear on my desktop. How can I get to reappear in iTunes (have tried resetting and rebooting).

By mistake I disconnected my iPod (5th generation) when it said Do not disconnect. Now it doesn't appear in iTunes, but it does appear on my desktop. How can I get to reappear in iTunes? I have tried resetting and rebooting. And my iTunes is up to date on my macbook pro, mountain lion, OS X 10.8.
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The iPod's filesystem may be corrupted. This may seem like overkill, but it has been known to help many others in the same boat. Try doing a low level reformat of the iPod's hard disk using the instructions in this article.
http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/erase/
B-rock

HT1386 When I try to sync, my iPod classic goes immediately into 'do not disconnect' (normally), but it is perpetual (hours) and does not transfer the iPod files to the iTunes library. It remains locked into this 'do not disconnect' until I shut down my M

Hi out there... this problem began when I uninstalled Lion and reinstalled Snow Leopard on my older MacBook. If you have some advice for me, thanks! John

Try restoring the iPod via iTunes.
BTW, you posted in the iPod touch forum.

What happens when my ipod classic 5th generation is stuck on the do not disconnect screen?

first you must connect it to pc or mac, then attemptto reset once that happens it should come back up and only when the red circle blinks then it will show up on itunes display again, then you push eject wait till regular ipod screen come up showing music, videos, etc, then you take of ipod usb.

Try holding down menu and the center button for a few seconds, until the apple symbol appears. This has always worked for me

Anyone else tired of the "Do Not Disconnect"?

Is it just me or would many of you like myself like to have an ipod update that changes the "Do Not Disconnect" screen to a nice progress bar.
I dont know about you, but I think this would solve a lot of problems. Just think of all of the users disconnecting before the screen even changes. Perhaps if there was a progress bar, users would be able to see an estimation of the time remaining.
This is a Very needed update.

I do not believe that you fully understand what the 'Do Not Disconnect' message means in all cases.
If you use your iPod with Disk Mode Enabled, then the 'Do Not Disconnect' message will be present on the screen even if there is nothing being transferred to it at the time. It will remain on the screen until you manually eject it.
A progress bar would be useless in this regard, since there is no progress to monitor.
The 'Do Not Disconnect' message works perfectly as it is. I do not see any reason to change its behavior.

IPod stuck on Do not disconnect screen.

My iPod is stuck on the Do not disconnect screen. It won't connect to the computer, shut off or reset. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

If you have your iPod set to transfer your music manually, then that “do not disconnect” message will continue to be displayed on your iPod until you manually eject it.
You can do this by clicking on the little eject icon next to the iPod listing in the source window of iTunes, or right click on it and select “eject”. There is also an iPod 'eject' icon in the lower right hand corner of iTunes. Another way would be to use the “safely remove hardware” icon in the system tray next to the clock (looks like a grey rectangle with a green arrow above it). Click on this then select your iPod. Or through Windows, select start/my computer, right click on the iPod, select eject. With a Mac, drag the iPod into the trash.
If you have your iPod set to automatically sync with iTunes version 7 or later, connect the iPod and when you see the summary screen, uncheck the box marked "enable disk use".
If you are using an earlier version of iTunes, right click on the iPod in the source list, select options and uncheck the same box.
In future your iPod should automatically disconnect after it’s finished transferring music.

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I upgraded to Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. I installed iTunes and restarted my computer like it said to. I couldn't open iTunes, so I plugged in my iPod to see if maybe it would open iTunes. My computer recognized my iPod and I got the Do Not Disconnect screen. It's been on the screen for about 20 minutes. Does anyone have any idea what I do to make it "okay" to unplug my iPod? Does anyone know how I get iTunes to open? If anyone can help, I'd really, really appreciate it! Thanks.

Get into Windows Explorer and right-click > Eject your iPod.

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I plugged my ipod video into my xBox 360 and
disconnected it. My ipod froze with the do not
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My ipod classic froze in the 'do not disconnect' screen.

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