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Rockbox General => Rockbox General Discussion => Topic started by: XClemX on August 25, 2006, 10:28:01 PM
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just having a small problem with my pod, i have formatted the pc recently, and now i cant get he ipod to be "seen" by the pc..
edit:: "i have rockbox installed and am using that, not apple firmware as i know i could get that too work..."
i have done the admin tools > Comp Managment > Disk Managment...but every time it finds the ipod, it wants to format it before i am able to look into it..
any help?
Clem
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Since Rockbox boots into the Apple firmware for USB mode, if you know you could get that to work, just do what you'd do for the Apple firmware.
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ok, seem to be having trouble, cant get the pc to recognise it in any form now, in either apple or rockbox.
it is recognised in windows explorer, but only as a drive letter, i am unable to click on it and access it.
it apple fw it does nothing but hang!!
any help now as i would like to update with some new albums i have bought and ripped..
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What happens when you try to click and open the drive?
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an error "please insert a disk into J:" comes up
J: is the drive letter for the ipod
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ok, now if i want to format the ipod in wondows, it will only allow me to do so into NTFS.
this i assume will be a hassle as ipods run on FAT32 file system? i am unsure.
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Don't format it using Windows. If anything, run the Apple Ipod Updater from Apple and wipe it clean. It will format it properly to FAT32. Download it from apple.com/ipod or use your original disc that came with the iPod.
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that doesnt recognise it either..otherwise yeah i would have done that.
thanks for that.
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ok, i had to format the ipod into NTFS as it was the only way the pc would recognise the ipod.
then i was able to get the latest ipod updater and format it again thru that.
abit of work,but i am glad to say i have the ipod working, but only with apple fw atm, i will chuck rockbox on again tonitgh and need to be careful the next time i format the pc.
i have now loaded it all ontothe laptop which i never format so that will be the ipod > pc connection.
should be all god from here on out..