When my ipod is charging, the hard drive won't open.

when my ipod is charging the hardrive or the pop-up only appears once after that it wont pop up...
does anyone know why??
It charges fine but the hardrive(pop-up) wont show
IM FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and does anyone know another way to put music onto ipod without itunes my itunes is currently not working...im new to this apple system

If you mean that the iPod does not appear in iTunes on yur computer go here:
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
or
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
Otherwise more clearly describe your problem.

Similar Messages

HT5622 My Ipod Classic shows a red circle with a cross in the middle. I've completed diagnostic tests which have popped up, however any HP/FW/Hard Drive tests freeze the ipod, as if the hard drive won't spin. What do I do?

My Ipod Classic shows a red circle with a cross in the middle. I've completed diagnostic tests which have popped up, however any HP/FW/Hard Drive tests freeze the ipod, as if the hard drive won't spin. What do I do?
After holding down the Select and Play/Pause button, I was able to restart the Ipod and then it brought me to a Diagnositc test. I have tried doing both the Mannual and Annual test on the ipod however in each test, the ipod freezes on different access tests. The HP (headphones) test, shows the headphones are detected, but then if it tries to play a song to make sure they work it freezes and goes back to the red cross. I have looked at various other questions regarding the FW cable, however I don't believe i have such a cabel. Then the Hard Drive test freezes up and I can hear a ticking noise coming from the drive but it doesnt seem to be spinning. Alongside these test issues, any computer cannot see the Ipod when plugged in (including itunes). Therefore some tests for the USB drive cannot be completed. I do not recall dropping it badly, though I have dropped it previously. Does all this mean there is damage to the drive? Should I instead take it to an apple store?
Many Thanks

The stats look fine. Try the DFU Restore method shown in Corrupt iPod classic. It may pay to disable any anti-virus software and use the staged transfer method to reload data, assuming you get that far.
tt2

Moving iPod material onto the hard drive

I have been saving all my music on an external drive which is now corrupted. How do I get the material from my iPod onto the hard drive of my computer instead?
Thanks
Niles
Chicago

If your iPod is set to update automatically you need to take care connecting to an empty iTunes. You can use a keyboard command to prevent your iPod auto-syncing with iTunes. While connecting the iPod to the computer on Windows with iTunes 7.3 or later installed hold down the Shift + Ctrl keys together. This will stop the iPod from auto-syncing with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 20 to 30 seconds depending on your computer: iTunes - Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
When your iPod appears in the iTunes source list change the update setting to manual, that will let you use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default: Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. There are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Comparison of iPod managers
TuneJack Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
SharePod Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod2PC Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows
Floola Mac & Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content only from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available on page 2 at this link: Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync.

HT1338 I was backing up my MacBook with Time Machine on my new (correctly formatted) external hard drive. It was going fine when my 2 yo knocked the hard drive. Now TM said "failed" and the Mac refuses to recognize the external hard drive. Help please?

I was backing up my MacBook with Time Machine and using my new (correctly formatted) external hard drive. All was going well when my 2 yo knocked the disk leading to a "failure" by time machine (Latest Backup: Failed). Now the MacBook will not even recognize the hard drive. I have rebooted, tried all I can think of, but no acknowledgement of the drive. The drive itself makes noise and vibrates as if working, but nothing from the Mac. Please help or $100 down the drain... Thank you.

You may have already done these resets in the "tried all I can think of " portion of your post.....if not then here they are.....
PRAM
support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
SMC
support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
.....hopefully that is all that is required.....

Have a nx9600 and when it tries to reboot, the hard drive light comes on, the 2 lock lights flash

At boot, the hard drive light comes on, the 2 lock lights flash simultanously (A and 1 ) , 2 of the 3 fans come on, then it appears to turn off. It will sit in a loop through the reboot process until the power and the battery have been removed.
Have replaced the drive and the center fan. The replaced fan is new and an HP fan. When I have been able to get it to boot , loaded windows and linux on the new drive.
If it sits long enough and you pray it may reboot. Once I turned it upside down and it rebooted.
Have had the system up and running for hours with no problem, then have to reboot or a shutdown and won't reboot.
Suggestions ?

Install or Reinstall Mavericks or Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.

Hi, I'm trying to exported edited photos to an external hard drive... when i try to add the hard drive through lightroom it says selected device is not writable.... well i manage to write on it with everything else in the world! please help.

I can export the photos to the desk top but when i then select the folder and drag to drop on the hard drive it does not give me the option. If i go to copy folders out of the hard drive to the desktop i can do so no problem (its not a problem with the hard drive to my knowledge).
Please help its driving me away from both lightroom which i really like and from Macs in general!!!!

I found that it was due to the format of the drive, NTFS not being compatible with Mac. I am not converting the drive to a FAT format.
Quick Tip: Solving "Read Only" External Drive Problems on Your Mac - YouTube

When mac wakes from sleep, the hard drive wakes but the screen is black

It's a problem I've been having off and on for quite a while with my ~2010 MacBook Pro. Sporadically/randomly, when I wake my computer from sleep or turn it on, the status light turns on and the hard drive makes sounds like it's on, but the screen stays black. The only way to get it on again is to manually hold the power button to shut if off and start it up again. Sometimes, the same issue reoccurs when I restart it and I have to manually restart it 5 or 6 times until it finally turns on normally, or I just get tired and give up. I've had everything done at the genius bar, from getting a new hard drive to running diagnostic testing. Nothing works. Any suggestions??

Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

Please someone help. When I tap Purchased on the ipad, it won't open to show me my purchases. It just says loading, but never does!

Please help! When I tap Purchased on my ipad, it won't open to show me the purchased apps. It says 'Loading' but never does. I use the apps to help my daughter who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Thank you in advance

Hi, I was having the same problem on my new Mini. It would load fine on my iP3 and my phone but not my mini. My two daughters both have iPads linked to my iTunes account. They download a bunch of apps and I suspected this had something to do with it.
After a few hours, I found how to hide the purchased apps in iTunes (go to Store, App Store (up the top) then the Apps tab. Hover the mouse until you get an X then click on it. It doesn't delete it from your library, just stops it showing up on your iPad. I did this, launched Purchased on my iPad mini and boom they all came up. I just hid those I don't use/want any more, and some of the older ones my kids have purchased. Cut the number down from nearly 500 to 280 and it loads like a charm now.

When restoring iPod, what files on hard drive are erased?

I have an ! mark and a folder shown on face of my iPod(mini). When I reset, I get an apple showing for a second or two, then it goes back to !/folder. I think my only choice is to try to restore. Does restoring wipe out the entire computer hard drive or just all iPod and related music files?

You can send an email here and see what they say.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/lostmusic/
If/when you get the music back, go here to see how to backup your music.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/backup/

IPod Nano and my hard drive won't work on my G3....Why!?!

Hey everyone.
I'm home from college, and I didn't want to take my iMac with me. Luckily, I have been using an older G3 iBook. It works fine, but when I tried to plug in my iPod Nano, it doesn't recognize it. I didn't bring my Nano install disk. Is there another way to get the computer to recognize the Nano?
Also, I brought my external Hard Drive home so I have my music collection with me. On my iMac, I have no problem. I plug it in via USB, and it works fine. But again, my G3 iBook doesn't recognize the external hard drive. Now...I'm stuck at home with no music....HELP!

If you have an older version of OS, then you will be unable to download the newest version of itunes. In that case, the best bet is to restore the ipod.

Iphoto from external hard drive won't open on another macbook

My iphoto wont open from my external hard drive on my other MacBook. It says: The photo library will need to be upgraded to work with this version of iphoto. Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iphoto after the upgrade.
1) Why do I need to upgrade?
2) Will I still be able to open this external HD on my old macbook?
When I click upgrade it says: there is a problem accessing one or more files in your iphoto library. Do you want iphoto to repair permissions for this library for you?
3) What does this mean?
4)Can I open this external hard drive iphoto library on a Dell laptop or will it always have to be on a Mac?
Thank you for your help!

You do not give enough information to give a total answer - but basically it sounds like you have two Macs with different version of iPhoto - newer version of iphoto have to upgrade the iPhoto library to use it and once they do older versions can not use it - that is the meaning of the warning
The photo library will need to be upgraded to work with this version of iphoto. Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iphoto after the upgrade.
Pretty clearly stated by the warning
so
1 - because you probably have a newer version of iPhoto on your "other MacBook"
2 - Probably not
3 - you have a permissions problem that needs to be repaired - often this is caused by having the iPhoto library on an improperly formatted drive - the iPhoto library must always be on a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - what format is the drive the iPhoto library is on?
4 - no - if the drive is properly formatted the Dell can not open it and if it can it has no idea what to do with it - the iPhoto library must be used by iphoto on a Mac - if you want to have your photo on a PC you have to export them to a drive the PC can read
LN

Older iphoto on external hard drive won't open in Mavericks os

I have my iphoto on an external hard drive that I would open on two different computers. I recently upgraded my imac to Mavericks and now I can't open the library stored on the external HD; it's indetectible. When I click iphoto icon on the imac, the existing (internal hard drive) library opens. I *believe* before the upgrade I had to choose which library to open, but it was such an intuitive process I can't remember exactly what or if I had to do anything specific now. The library still functions fine on my macbook air, which is running iphoto 9.2.3.
Can I upgrade the iphoto on the external hard drive?? I've been reading tons of threads but haven't found a solution that sounds like it fits my issue. and of course i'm hesitant to just try anything as I don't want to lose all the photos (and I like how they're organized).
Thanks for any advice!

So can i update the library on the external HD so that it can be used with 9.5.1??
Probably - I'm still not totally clear on what you ahe, what you have done and what yu are doing
this statement is worrysome and more information is certainly needed
I recently upgraded my imac to Mavericks and now I can't open the library stored on the external HD; it's indetectible.
and
If I update the MBA to Mavericks with the EHD attached will the iphoto be updated to 9.5.1??
If you also update iPhtoo to version 9.5.1 on the MBA then both computers can access the 9.5.1 iPHoto library while the EHD is connected to them
LN

Hard drive won't open on double-click

Had to have my hard drive repaired last week and now it won't open on a double click. Applications open from dock, but in order to open documents I have to go through Finder. Is this just a new routine or is it standard. It is more tedious than double-clicking.

If I understand you well, you can access files inside the HD by opening a finder window and then, using the sidebar, selecting the HD...
Have you tried selecting the HD (single click) and then issuing an open command (File->Open, or command-O)?

When saving a PDF to the Hard Drive the PDF logo has been replaced with a HTML FireFox Logo where as before it would have a PDF Logo. Is this right?

It also when opening opened in FireFox not Adobe until i changed it in Windows but the PDF logo has gone and now with the HTML FireFox Logo which now opens in Adobe. Why has the PDF logo been replaced? I hope i make some sense. Thankyou.

If you set Firefox as the default browser and Firefox detects via a registry scan that there is currently no file handler application that handles PDF files and a few other file types then the Firefox updater/installer registers Firefox as the default application to handle these file types.
This causes them to show with a Firefox icon on the desktop and in other places like Windows Explorer (Bug 452254).
You can right-click a PDF file in Windows Explorer and use the open with dialog to change the default application to the Adobe Reader or your preferred application to handle PDF file.
If the icon doesn't change to the icon of that application then you may have to change the icon on the desktop via other means
On Windows XP you can check the Windows Control Panel:
*Control Panel > Folder Options > File Types: .PDFf
*Registry Editor: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.pdf\ or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf (Default = empty string)
*[[/questions/1014919]]

My default downloads folder is on my server at work, so when I'm at home the downloads window won't open and I can't change my download settings.

I've tried resetting my downloads folder to default, but it just goes back to the downloads folder on my work server that I won't be able to connect to until next month. When I try to select a different download folder, the "browse" button doesn't work. I've also tried selecting the option to ask me where to save each time, but nothing pops up when I try to save something.

hey jessicats86, please enter '''about:config''' into the locationbar of the browser (you might have to confirm the info message in case it shows up) and search for the preferences named '''browser.download.dir''' & '''browser.download.lastDir'''. right-click each of them and reset the value to the default. then restart firefox and try to set the download folder again in the options panel.

When my ipod is charging, the hard drive won't open.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for