Windows sees my ipod as a removable disk instead of portable media player

i think this is why, my ipod is not located in the source pane. Can anyone help?
P.S my ipod is not in disk mode

That's whole different problem, since itunes wont launch (no matter what i do) i use winamp, and as soon as i started having problems with windows and ipod, my ipod no longer appears in the winamp source pane. Winamp isn't the problem because i've been using it since i've given up trying to get itunes to open.

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Hello
I am a new user of ipod technologies and I would like to ask you if it is possible to use it as a removable disk because I need to transferd information between my computers?
PC Windows XP

You can use the instructions in this article to enable disk use for the iPod.
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just checking. have you worked through the possibilities from these documents yet?
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I've had my iPod for quite a while now, dating back to June of 2005. Just lately I have not been able to connect my iPod to iTunes. When I checked under "My Computer" it appeard in the F Drive as well as being named "Removable Disk" as opposed to its given name. Finally, I was able to get iTunes to recognize the iPod and it asked me to restore it. I did and I was still unable to get it to work properly. It asked me to restore the iPod again, whiwh I again tried. This time, however, it stated:
"There was a problem downloading the iPod 'iPod.' The requested resource was not found."
When I open RealRhapsody to download music, the iPod no longer appears. When I try to select it on My Computer, it freezes up. I do not know what to do. Any help would be nice.

. when i plugged my ipod shuffle g1 in a few days ago itunes said the i had to restore my ipod. i did not want to but i had no choice cauz it already deleted my songs. after 5 trys it said "cant restore ipod"ipod". unknown error occurred (1418))(itunes did it by it self, i just put it in one very fateful afternoon. i spent 5 hrs on the computer and i still cant fix it) well i went to this web site to see if they could help me. i found something. it was a program for my ipod but by the time i downloaded it, it was too late. after a while plugging in my ipod "my computer" no longer reconized it as removable disk. a pop up comes up and says this device malfunctioned then my ipod disappears off the face of the earth. i would send it to the apple store but my warranty expired. bummer what should i do?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PC thinks iPod is a Removable Disk

When I hook up my iPod to my laptop (Dell XPS M140), it shows up in My Computer as "Removable Disk (E:)". When I run the iTunes Diagnostics, the result is that no iPod is shown as connected. What do to?
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Connect the iPod to a rear port on your computer, and connect your keyboard and mouse. If you are on a network, disconnect from it. Now disconnect any other USB device including printers, cameras, thumb drives, external hard drives, modems, scanners, etc.
Now change the drive designation on the iPod. Try or M or P or Z. Also, make sure your drivers are current for all your other USB devices:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

Windows 7 freezes / hangs when playing video or audio on any media player

I've had this issue since installing Windows 7 (32 bit) over 2 months ago and have been actively seeking a fix for the majority of those two months. In windows XP pro (32 bit), I had no issues whatsoever. The problem manifests itself as a complete hang of all system functions and inability to interact with my computer aside from moving the pointer around.
This only occurs when I am playing some sort of media (mp3, avi, mp4, mkv, etc) on any media player that I had installed at the current time of testing (WMP12, VLC, Realplayer). The initial response is a hang of the system which then can become a freeze if I click around too much during the hang. After approximately 3-5 minutes the problem is alleviated and the system plays catchup with the video/audio sync.
Below is a complete rundown on my system and fixes floating from other threads that I have attempted.
My System Spec:
Windows: Windows 7 Ultimate (32 Bit) Version 6.1 Build 7600
Motherboard: Gigabyte Ds4-X48 Crossfire Ready
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256Bit DDR5
CPU: E8500 Wolfdale (3.16) Core2Duo
Ram: 4GB ( 2x 2GB OCZ Reapers @ PC8500 1066MHZ )
PSU: 600W OCZ GameXStream
HDD - Primary - 1.5TB Seagate
HDD - STORAGE - 1.5TB Seagate + 500GB Western Digital
Audio - Integrated Realtek
Drive Bays: SATA Combo Drive (Samsung) + IDE Lightscribe DVD-MultiRecorder RW
As you can see, my system is more than capable of running Windows 7 and probably just as qualified to captain a space shuttle.
Things I have tried to no avail
- Changing the Power Plan
- Adjusting the overclock of my GPU to factory defaults
- disabling Media Player Network Sharing in services.msc
- Only having WMP12 installed
- Shark007 Codec Pack
-Not having Shark007 Codec Pack
- Undergrading WMP12 to WMP11
- CLEAN BOOT - Freezes/hangs still occured regardless.
- Registry optimization and cleaning
- Playing video after fresh install still causes freezes
- SQMClient/MachineThrottling IS NOT THERE TO BE DISABLED OR DELETED
- Adjusting RAM timing,frequency and voltage in BIOS
- Use Display driver provided by Windows Update for ATI Radeon HD 4870
- Tested several other Catalyst and Display drivers
- Updated Chipset , Audio Driver, Network Driver
- Clean installed 4+ times ( I clean installed inbetween all of the previous attempts listed above)
- Uninstalling programs such as AIM, MSN Messenger, Adobe products, Daemon Tools Lite, Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX
-My computer is not eligible for the Intel Matrix Storage update
-Disabling aero
I am now starting to suspect maybe Company of Heroes may be an issue as it is Divx endorsed.
I froze once while typing this up due to wmp12 playing a mp4 music video in the background.
Can anyone recommend a good skin and theme that will make Windows XP look like 7? I'm starting to think that it's my only solution.

Hi,
Thank you for your posting.
As for this system freezing issue, we generally need to analyze the performance monitor logs and memory dump files to locate the root cause. Unfortunately, debugging is beyond what we can do in the forum because of the nature of forum support. A support call to our product service team is needed for the debugging service. I'd like to recommend that you contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS) for assistance so that this problem can be resolved efficiently. To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request please take a look at the web site listed below:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS
If you are outside the US please see http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.
Having said that, I'd still like to provide the following general troubleshooting steps to see if we can eliminate this problem:
Note: Please perform a complete system backup first. If any unexpected issue occurs, we can quickly restore the system to the current status.
1.    Scan your system to make sure that the system is virus free. Temporarily disable your anti-virus software to see if this problem is gone.
2.    If you have recently installed any software, hardware or drivers, please remove them.
3.    Run Process Explorer to check which processes are using a lot of memories or cause high CPU utilization:
Process Explorer
4.    If the process is a service, you can use these steps to find out what applications are using most of the CPU: Open Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, look for the process that is using the CPU and note its PID (Process ID). Note that you may need to go to the View/Select Columns menu and make sure that PID (Process Identifier) is checked.
Once you have the PID run the following from a command prompt:
tasklist /svc
This should give you the application associated with the PID you identified in the previous step.
However, if the issue still persists, please contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS) for further troubleshooting. I hope the problem will be resolved soon. Thanks!
Nicholas Li - MSFT

Windows sees 4G iPod Nano, iTunes only wants to "Restore" it

My problem is a variation on what appears to be a constant theme around here. Windows XP will recognize my 4G iPod Nano (16GB). It even gives it a drive letter. However, iTunes will only display the Software Version and Serial Number on the DEVICES Summary tab page. In the Version section of the page I can click the Restore button, but the restore will fail approximately half way through with the following, and I discovered vague, error:
+The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1429).+
I've spent about 6 hours researching and troubleshooting this now, completing all the steps here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1372 and here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493. I've also uninstalled/reinstalled iTunes and the USB drivers a bunch. Still no joy.
I'm open to suggestions.
The following is a dump of the iTunes Diagnostic test results:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Hewlett-Packard Presario V3000 (RD153AV)
iTunes 9.0.2.25
QuickTime 7.6.5
FairPlay 1.5.23
Apple Application Support 1.1.0
iPod Updater Library 9.0d11
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 2.6.0.32
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.45.0.0
Bonjour 1.0.6.2 (118.5)
iTunes Serial Number <redacted>
Current user is an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2010-01-22 05:35:07.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
Video Display Information
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
** External Plug-ins Information **
No external plug-ins installed.
** iPod/iPhone Connectivity Tests **
iPodService 9.0.2.25 is currently running.
iTunesHelper 9.0.2.25 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 2.50.39.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller. Device is working properly.
No FireWire (IEEE 1394) Host Controller found.
** iPhone/iPod Touch Sync Tests **
No iPhone or iPod found.

b noir wrote:
Could you confirm your Presario's *model number* for me please? (Sometimes with an HP/Compaq, the number that comes up in the iTunes diagnostics is a "product number" which is applicable to a range of different models.) The following HP document may be of assistance ... I'm looking for what it refers to as "Identifier 1":
Certainly. Using HP's numerical identifiers:
1 - V3000Z
2 - RD153AV
3 - BU IDS DF UMA V3100
The full product number from my infoice was EPP00RD153AV. When I use this,
When I use the product number (RD153AV) on the Compaq Support page it sends me to *Compaq Presario V3000Z CTO Notebook PC* (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=3180330&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&la ng=en&cc=us).
Many thanks for all your help troubleshooting this.

Windows sees my iPod but iTunes doesn't (USB 2.0)

I had this problem when I got my iPod a few days ago, then when I got iTunes to see my iPod it took AGES to upload songs, and when I reconnected my iPod, iTunes said it needed to reformat it.
My PC at work speaks to my iPod just fine through it's USB ports, but is a new, high end PC with top spec components, whereas my home PC is a couple of years old, though fairly high spec though it's components may not be as good.
The conclusion I drew from that is that some older USB 2.0 ports just can't handle the capacity of information that iTunes and iPod require in order to speak to each other.
I noticed today that my PC had a Firewire port in it's soundcard at the back (yours may do too, take a look) so I went to HMV and bought a 3rd party iPod Firewire cable for £10. Now my home PC and my iPod are the best of friends, and I'm a happy bunny (which I wasn't earlier in the week).
If you are having similar problems, there is probably nothing wrong with your software or your iPod (poor thing!), its almost certainly that your USB ports just aren't up to scratch (despite the claims of Apple).
If your soundcard doesn't have a Firewire port, a PCI Firewire card will cost you about £40, unless you take the time to look around and get one a bit cheaper. This will be the answer to your prayers.
Good luck, and I hope this info will spare you some messing about.

Make sure you have the most recent version of itunes. And if you do have the most recent version of itunes. Check to make sure your ipod software is up to date. If either or is out of date it will cause itunes not to sync with the ipod.
Itunes versions should be - 5.0.1
- you can find the version by going to help and then about itunes. In the strolling box you should see version .....
Ipod software version should be 1.2
- you can check this on the ipod by going to setting and then about. scroll down and you should see the version 1.2

Windows sees my iPod, but iTunes doesn't

I recently updated my iPod which was previously working fine. It goes through the whole update process with no problem. When that is done, I tried to connect it to my PC, but get the error message that iTunes cannot read the contents of my iPod and that it needs to be restored to the factory settings.
I am currently backing up my iPod and then am going to restore it, but my question is this: is there any way to get this update to actually work? It seems like there are many posts complaining about the most recent update. Did Apple just issue an update without doing any testing at all? An update is supposed to fix problems, not cause thousands more....

So, now that I've backed up all my songs, I can't restore my iPod. I tricked iTunes into letting me click on the restore button, but then there is an error and the program shuts down.
itunes.exe version 7.0.0.70, offset 0014ff5a
Code: 0xc000005
Thanks Apple, your update had rendered my iPod useless.

My iPod is stuck in Disk Mode

I have a 3 year old iPod and the other day I went to put it back in the docking station for a recharge and noticed no display of the Charging icon.
When I pressed a button to activate the device I noticed a Icon of a Folder with an excamation point. When I connect it to my computer it sees that it is connected and Windows see it as a removable drive. The device displays that it is in DISK MODE. I am unable to browse the directories and it really locks my computer up when I try to access it.
iTunes does not see the device. Windows see it as an APPLE Device.
I am unable to do a reset from the iPod controls.
I was able to open the device and remove the battery hoping that this would resolve the issue, but not luck.
Please Help. I have some important docs on the drive that I need to get. All my music is backuped up so I am not to worried about that.

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IPod nano being read by Windows as "Removable Disk"

I have a 4gb nano, current firmware 1.1.1. Now, I've updated it before to the music on iTunes (back when it was on 1.0), but then one day, the iPod suddenly showed the exclamation/folder icon. So I restored the iPod with firmware 1.1 (it recommended I update, so I did), but my computer couldn't recognize the iPod. It kept showing a little baloon (I'm using XP) saying that the device could not be written to (only when I unplugged it, however). So, I thought that maybe it was just trying to write to it very slowly, but after leaving it there for a day, supposedly "writing" to the iPod, there were no results. I updated to 1.1.1, thinking that maybe 1.1 had a bug that caused this, but then I was confronted with the problem of nothing recognizing it at all. Windows now shows the iPod as a "Removable Disk", and when I double click it, it shows the loading mouse for about a minute; until it says
"E:\ is not accessible.
The Files or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
NOTE: I have NEVER used any third party software like linux or "hacked" my iPod.
So, after looking around, I followed the method here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716
Because I could see the device in My Computer but couldn't open it, and iTunes didn't recognize it.
However, it was not a success, so I tried the method here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301343
But that also didn't work. I am now at a loss for explanation, can anyone help me? This is my mother's iPod, and she's leaving on a business trip in two days; I'd like to get her music back on it so she can use the iPod on the plane. Any ideas?

It wasn't being recognized by anything... including the updater. But after searching through other threads, I found that other people have had this problem as well; it seems the firmware is the prime target for the scre-up. Thanks, Benoa, for the steps! Although you've probably heard it enough times already.

IPod only connects as Removable Disk (E:) and says "Safely Remove Hardware

I recently posted about this problem and since then, I have not been able to do a thing. I have done the 5 R's, and still nothing. This is very frustrating, I just want my iPod so update again. The music and videos are still on it but some songs just totally skip, and few videos don't work correctly. Still, even in disk mode, the iPod connects as Removable Disk (E:) and pops up into the taskbar as "safely remove hardware." I've read about formatting the iPod but I really don't want to mess it up. My patience is waring thin once again.
This weekend I am looking to go to the Apple Store to see if they can see what is wrong with it and get it repaired, or just get a new one. I'll post again on what happens. Any help about my problem will be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!
Matt
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I've been having a similar problem with ipod software not interacting with the windows system correctly. I was having to go through the "Restore" defaults process over and over (for last three days) with no success. I went to the Apple Store, Genius counter at Westfield Mall today and the tech did a reset to "Restore Defaults" with no problem from an apple machine. He also loaded 2000 songs successfully.
I bought the 60G ipod with video Thursday this week and have been fighting with it since then.
At home, I tried ipod updater with Restore Defaults and the software failed and corrupted the ipod folder index file. I've been trying to do all this through a PCMCI Dual Link card (which has the USB2 port on it) and was getting all sorts of different types of problems and errors (like the folder with the "!") and having no luck getting the windows format through the "Restore Defaults" choice. In an act of desperation I decided to try a regular USB port (I believe it's the 1.1 version, but not sure) on the computer directly and was able to get the factory setting "Restore" into the ipod (but with a slower speed of data transfer). I rebooted the computer and then brought up iTunes to do the sync of songs which took about 1.5 hours (for ~2000 songs) but worked fine. I've shut down and restarted the computer a few more times since then and iTunes still finds the ipod on the same USB port and does the sync without issue.
I believe my problem was the ADS Technology Cardbus Interface Card (which has Firewire & USB 2.0 ports) and plugs into the PCMCI slot on the side of my computer. If I don't use this card and instead use a regular USB (1.1?) port, the wide variety of problems I was having have disappeared.
My 2 cents for what it's worth.

Windows cant open ipod

Ok when i plug my ipod into the computer Itunes won't list it windows explorer says its a removable disk instead ok its name and everytime i try to open it windows explorer freezes. When i open ipod updater it wont respond after saying initializing.

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