Unique Ipod Recognition Problem

Hey,
Alright, thus far I have found no problem similiar to mine with my Ipod mini. Where others state they get a sad face or Exclamation Folder, I get nothing. My Ipod about 2 months ago stopped being recognized by my main computer. It does not show up in My Computer or Itunes, but it does recognize that it initially as it is connected to my USB. I recieve no error messages, or anything, the Ipod just proceeds to "Charge" (even tho it rarely does, which is another thread all together). Here is the kicker, when I tried connecting it to my other computer, it was recognized almost immediatley. Unfortunatly, I have none of my music on that computer and am not willing to transfer my extensive music library to update my Ipod. Does anyone have a clue to what may be wrong with my ipod, or my one computer?
Oh yeah, and all the suggestions that Apple has suggested on that one page did nothing, including putting it disk mode, forceable mounting didn't even work.
Thanks
Ipod Mini Windows XP

This is exactly what happened to me... try reassigning the network drive:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499
This fixed my problem immediately.

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Well, I now am back to 9000 songs and a couple of movies! How did I manage this given the recognition problems I've been having with iPod and Windows?
Easy. Explained the problems to those nice people at PC World in Edinburgh and they gave me a Creative Zen Vision M as a replacement plus the £60 so of difference in price.
So, back up to speed with my portable music and movies, and an FM Radio on it too. I seriously thought I had thrown my money down the toilet with the iPod and I'm delighted that PC World showed the sort of customer service they are not generally renowned for.
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Hi, 2 days ago i ran into a problem with my Zen. I had to charge it, as the battery was low and had to put some new music on it.. I plugged it into the USB port on my Laptop, where all of it's software is installed. The Zen wasn't recognized. Instead of the charging screen it normally started up with, it started up with the play screen(the screen it shows when a song is playing). I looked at the battery icon in the top right corner, and it wasn't doing anything. I turned the Zen off and started it up again. Nothing changed. I restarted my computer. Nothing changed. I shut down my computer and started it back up again. Nothing changed.
I took it to my desktop computer, a Compaq, and tried it there. It worked, but not how i was expecting it to work. The battery icon started flashing with the little lightning bolt, acknowledging that it was charging. But the play screen was still there. The odd thing with this is, i left the player to charge for several hours. When i came back, the Zen was in some form of idle shut-down. The screen was black, except for the battery icon with the lightning bolt. Oddly enough, he battery bar hadn't filled up anymore than when i left it. Upon unplugging the player though, the Zen turned off. When i turned it back on, the bar had filled up more. It wasn't fully charged though.
I plugged the cable back into it, and this time, the battery icon WASN'T charging. It just had the play screen on. It wasn't doing ANYTHING this time. Frustrated, i went out and bought the wall charger, and now i have a full battery. But it doesn't solve why my computer won't recognize my player.
Today, i un-installed the software that came with the player and re-installed it. It didn't do anything. I installed the software on my desktop computer, and THAT didn't work either. So i came to the website here and used the trouble-shoot guide. That didn't help, and this is where my problem differs from the other posters here who have recognition problems:
Back to my laptop: I have Windows Service Pack 2. I installed Windows Media Player . I went to the Device Manger, like the trouble-shoot guide said to. The kicker: Windows Portable Devices is NOT, i repeat NOT in my Device Manager. Neither does the Creative player either. I clicked on "The player does not appear in Device manager". That link showed me a diagram of a desktop computer, so went back to my desktop computer. I did everything above mentioned, and Windows Portable Devices is not in the device manager of my desktop computer either. Further reading the trouble-shoot guide, i could NOT locate "Other Devices" or "Unknown Devices" in my Device Manger on either desktop or laptop. There's nothing "Creative" related or "Zen" related at all in any of the Device programs.
I don't know what to do. All of the trouble-shoot guides don't discuss my issue at all. Everything is "If an MP3 player is reported working properly in Device Manager, but it is not detected or listed in Windows Media Player or Creative Media Explorer..."
Mine isn't even detected in Device Manager. My Device Manager has nothing regarding my Zen or Windows Portable Devices.
I'm thinking about messing with it in Recovery mode, but i don't want to erase everything i have on here, just to have my player still not work. I'm going to try messing with this at my friend's house to check the cable and the player there too.
But any help regarding my situation would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me crazy.

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hi chris
the difference is:
at home i've started it and it has been running 12 hrs without touching it
outside i've used it while running through the park five times, so i started and stopped it five times without touching it otherwise (didn't change songs)
do these five times starting/stopping waste 8,5 hrs battery runtime?
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No, they are not. You have to put it into perspective.
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