The Same Problem EVERYONE else is having!
Well, this will be no surprise: my PC won't recongnize the iPod through the USB, nor will iTunes or the Updater. Yada, yada, yada...it's all the same problems that everyone else has been complaining about and I've tried all of the solutions that everyone has also mentioned. Nothing works.
The closest I came to actually getting the iPod formatted was when the Updater allowed me to click on the "restore" button. It seemed like it was doing something and then BAM! The "Can't mount iPod" error comes up!
Why is this thing so "buggy" with a PC? Does anyone have any solid solutions? Or do you just keep playing with it and praying that it will somehow or other work at some point?
Well I've tried PRETTY MUCH all of the suggested solutions. I really don't feel like going out and buying another SCI card for my laptop only to find out it doesn't fix the problem. Yes, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop, running XP and connecting the iPod through the USB port on the SCI card (it's a dual card, which also has a firewire port).
I also don't feel like going through the hassle of buying a firewire cable only to find out that it doesn't fix anything either.
I spent a good hour on the phone with Apple tech support and got nowhere. She had me uninstalling, re-installing, re-booting, running msconfig, turning off Norton, setting the iPod in "disk mode", uninstalling and reinstalling some more, etc. and in the end nothing made a difference!
I can get the Updater to recognize the iPod, but when I click the "restore" button I keep getting that "can't mount iPod" error. (And I know for a fact that Windows is installed on the C Drive, so that can't be the problem.)
This is so frustrating. The tech support lady said if the last thing didn't work (which it didn't) then to call them back and they would continue to try and figure out how to solve the problem.
It really shouldn't be this complicated, should it? Why don't they make an iPod that is pre-formatted for use with a PC??
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Thanks!Well I've tried PRETTY MUCH all of the suggested solutions. I really don't feel like going out and buying another SCI card for my laptop only to find out it doesn't fix the problem. Yes, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop, running XP and connecting the iPod through the USB port on the SCI card (it's a dual card, which also has a firewire port).
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