Ipod video 64Mb?

[y2kcpi1]

HI THERE YA' ALL,

If your ipod don't work , you HAVE TO reformat it , even if it's formated right now with windows, also if you changed the firmware it will sometimes give you this problem, so just don't ask any more questions and just reformat your ipod, there is no other way.

Cheers,
Ben.

[Der Papst]

You say windows is formating your 80GB iPod without complaining that the volume is too big for FAT32?

[GodEater]

I'll put money on it that his free space has dropped

[y2kcpi1]

i used the restore from iTunes,

Cheers,
Ben.

[knight4led]

this explains why rockbox.ipod can't be found but not why ipodpatcher reports a sector size of 2048 unless that is stored in the MBR and it isn't reading it from the drive itself.

I am trying very hard to find a windows computer with a new enough version of iTunes to restore from. So far it insists on connecting to the internet, which has been my problem.

[GodEater]

We've discovered today that you can use the mformat utility from the mtools suite to correctly format an iPod from OSX (or any POSIX OS for that matter). Check the bottom of the http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32 page for details on what to do.

[y2kcpi1]

this explains why rockbox.ipod can't be found but not why ipodpatcher reports a sector size of 2048 unless that is stored in the MBR and it isn't reading it from the drive itself.

I am trying very hard to find a windows computer with a new enough version of iTunes to restore from. So far it insists on connecting to the internet, which has been my problem.

why doesn't itunes download the newest firmware for it i am using 7.1(2) and it's working great so why doesn't your itunes work is your internet connected (obviosly)

Cheers,
Ben.

[Febs]

why doesn't itunes download the newest firmware for it i am using 7.1(2) and it's working great so why doesn't your itunes work is your internet connected (obviosly)

Would you please make an attempt to use proper grammar and spelling?  Our posting guidelines require this.

[knight4led]

I live in El Salvador in a small town. I have a laptop and use it for work, but it is a Mac. The city hall here has internet I can use, but I don't really have access or the desire to put programs on their computers, escpecially not anything as invasive as iTunes. Any time that is not work hours for the city hall internet access is non-existant.

However I managed to get a friend with an XP laptop to let me borrow it for a day and got things working. Indeed it doesn't seem possible to use anything other than iTunes on a Windows machine to get the iPod formatted.

Now things are working and I'm happy.

[GodEater]

Indeed it doesn't seem possible to use anything other than iTunes on a Windows machine to get the iPod formatted.

Well, this isn't *quite* true. After much discussion yesterday in the IRC channel, we did get an OSX user to get their 80GB iPod formatted with mtools in a manner which worked properly with Rockbox. I'll grant you it's a complete PITA though.

linuxstb is contemplating putting this feature into ipodpatcher. Might be a while though

[knight4led]

Adding that feature to ipodpatcher would be really nice. I managed to format my iPod with an XP machine and posted here before noticing the IpodFat32 wiki change or the above post. I probably would have tried to build mtools or looked for it using MacPorts since I don't currently use Fink.