Windows to mac with a used ipod

I had a 4th gen ipod on my mac but it was stolen. My friend gave me her old 2nd gen ipod that was synced to a pc and now i'm trying to restore it and sync it with my itunes. it will not show up in itunes but will show up in the finder. how do i reset it to add my music?

I am having that EXACT same problem. Makes me think something is up with their site with the timeout thing. I don't know what to do now.

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*1) moving the music*
These pages may be of some help:
How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back)
How to move your iTunes library from Windows to Mac
*2) restoring the ipod as a Mac device*
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*3) pointing iTunes to and external library.*
You might find this article useful: iLounge - Managing your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive

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Hi,
i have a Mac book with 2 operating system, ( Windows& mac). How can i use my data on windows or mac when i use one of them in the same time?
Thank you

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When using the migrate tool to migrate from windows to mac, can you use ethernet to connect the computers to each other?

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Yes. The following quotation is from About Windows Migration Assistant
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i've been working on this for the past few days, and still no luck... iPod Shuffle 2nd generation (i know it's old).... not detected in my home MacBook... but works perfectly fine on Windows....
i tried using iPod Reset Utility, soooo many times... and i only had twice the luck of having it formatted... but even though it is formatted, it still isn't recognized in iTunes or even in Finder.... other than the 2 times of having it formatted using iPod Reset Utility, i had seen all the reuslts, like: Error ressetting the ipod blah blah: iPod has been reset, keep plugged in, until reset is completed blah blah: iPod has been reset, unplug and replug your iPod blah blah... etc, i have seen all the possible effects of iPod Reset Utility, but still no luck getting it recognized in iTunes or Finder....
and then , i tried connecting it to a windows computer (but i didn't restore it from there, and just ejected it from windows iTunes), after ejecting it from windows, and then connecting it to Mac, it worked miraculuosly.... perfectly synced and able to put music and listen to them... ejected iPod... after a few minutes, i wanted to add some other music, but when i connected it again, Bam!!!! not working again... even after connecting to windows, it didn't work anymore... guess the magic trick has been doomed...
i badly need help... puhlease... (^_^)

Hey, I hear ya and can sympathize. I have the same
issue. The difference is that my computer can "see"
my ipod but it refuses to show up in itunes itself;
therefore, I can't put anything on the ipod (from the
computer) and vice-versa. Apple support is clueless.
This is very frustrating to say the least. Itunes
keeps telling me that my ipod is synced to a
"different" computer, which isn't true. It's the
same computer. The difference is that when I first
got the 'pod and used it with this computer (and
everything worked fine), I was running XP. I
installed Vista and after that, all the problems
started. If I ever get this resolved, believe me,
I'll post something here.
I'm guessing that somehow, itunes "sees" what
computer it's hooked to by "looking" at something in
the OS. Change the OS and it "thinks" it's seeing a
"different" computer.
Try reformatting it.

Windows and Mac with same iPod

I have an iPod I have been using for over a year on my Mac with iTunes. I wanted to be able to connect it to my girlfriends PC so she can use it when she is working on her 'puter. She downloaded iTunes, then the iPod software from the Apple site, installed everything, but then it askes if she wants to format it. I don't want to lose 15 gigs of music so I told her not to do anything else til I can find an answer. How do we proceed at this point? Is it possible to do what I want to do or will we have to buy her her own Mac... to use my iPod.

Macs can read a Windows formatted iPod, but a Windows PC cannot directly read a Mac formatted iPod.
You can format the iPod for Windows use and then use it across the two platforms, but that will erase the iPod and require you to resync it to your iTunes.
There is a software you can purchase that will allow a Windows PC to read a Mac formatted HD (or iPod). See: XPlay (Software For Music Recovery &/or Cross-Platform Functionality)

Data transfer from mac to pc using ipod

I need to transfer some data files from my MacBook to my PC using my 30GB ipod. I get all the files copied onto my ipod from my mac with no problems. I have my ipod set to be used in disk mode.
Once I plug it into my pc, it tells me that I need to format the drive. How can I successfully transfer data from my mac to my pc using my 30GB ipod?
Someone told me to go ahead and format the drive/ipod on my pc and then plug it into my mac, place the files in the ipod and then I should be able to access the files having the ipod plugged into my pc. I started to try this, but it messes up my ipod to where I need to reset my ipod to factory settings using, my macbook.
Would it be possible to reset my ipod to factory settings using itunes on my pc and then try plug the ipod into my macbook and copy the files over that way?
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Would it be possible to reset my ipod to factory settings using itunes on my pc and then try plug the ipod into my macbook and copy the files over that way?
Yes. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what you were supposed to do in the first place. The wonderful thing about OS X: It'll speak HFS+, FAT32, and it'll even understand NTFS (but it can't write to it... yet). Oddest thing: XBox 360 will read HFS+, but WinXP/Vista won't... curious, isn't it?

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But you can't "pick yourself up by your own bootstraps."
I don't even like upgrade of SL while booted in Mac OS.
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1) Bootcamp doesnt work. A warning comes up at the very beginning saying "The startup disk cannot be partitioned." Well it already is. Is there any sort of work-around for this?
2) When I dd the windows iso onto a usb drive, rEFIt does't even recognize it so I cannot boot the Windows installer.
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