Stuck - 60 gig video iPod

[Rive238]

I'm really inexperienced with this kind of stuff, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something that's glaringly obvious to everyone else.  

I own a 60 gig video ipod and would like to play my .flac files, so here I am.

I followed the video ipod installation instructions to the best of my ability.  They were clear and concise, but somehow it seems I still managed to mess up.  I downloaded both firmware files (current build and fonts) and extracted them to my iPod (drive H - I browsed to make sure the folders were in the right location).  Then I ran the patcher and it seemed to work flawlessly.  After disconnecting, my iPod rebooted but wouldn't move past the black screen with the grey apple.  I waited a while, roughly 20 minutes, then restored my ipod to its factory settings with itunes.  I tried installing rockbox again, but it did the same thing.

Is it as simple as incompatibility or did I mess up in the installation?  Thanks for any help.

[Rive238]

Sorry, I neglected to mention that I'm running Windows XP.

[GodEater]

It would help a lot if you posted the output you got from ipodpatcher when you ran it...

[Rive238]

Here's a screen cap of what the patcher says.

It moves stuff, it writes to a partition, and the last line says "Bootloader installed successfully."

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[Llorean]

What folders do you see in H:\ then?

[Rive238]

In the iPod's main are:

Calendar
Contacts
iPod_Control (hidden)
Notes
rockbox

In rockbox are:

codecs
codepages
docs
eqs
fonts
icons
langs
rocks
themes
viewers
wps
and four files called rockbox.ipod, rockbox-info, tagnavi.config, and viewers.config

[browca04]

It seems odd to me that the bootloader would come up with disk drive 2 when the assigned drive letter is H:. I'm just thinking aloud, but does that strike anyone else as odd?

Do you have any other USB storage devices attached? Card readers and the like?

edit: Is your rockbox folder called "rockbox" or ".rockbox"?

[Rive238]

I have an external drive that's usually plugged in and my friend brings his over on occasion, but nothing's plugged in now besides the ipod.  It's just called "rockbox", no period.

[Llorean]

It needs to be .rockbox, that's what the folder is called in the zip file. Whatever you use to extract it may be renaming it for some reason.

[Rive238]

Thanks.  I'm going to go punch myself in the face.

It's working great now.  Thanks for being so patient with me, folks.