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I was recently given a 60 gb ipod that was not working, it would not power up so I plugged in with usb cable itunes says it is in recovery mode and needs to be restored and the battery will not recharge. I though since I have a pc that maybe it was mac formated so I swapped hard drives and it said the same thing. The next day I went to try again, but this time by accident I used the firewire cable and just like that it went straight to the ipod menu screen and I could see all the files, but still no charge on the battery.
I tried the usb cable again and once again itunes says its in recovery mode and must be restored.
What is happening? And what must I do?
Puzzled
Henry

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