I accidently formatted ipod drive - how do i set it up again?

[loboxx]

Hi everybody!

...I just intended to switch to rockbox now; and by trying so I screwed it up completely (ipod mini 4gb/2nd gen - PC = WinXp Home Ed. SP2) : So here's what I did:

The ipod showed as drive; and since I read that rockbox only works with FAT32 I formatted the drive as FAT32 (what I shouldn't have done I guess). Now the Ipod shows as a drive having one partition only. I didn't do a backup of the ipod firmware before...

After this I tried ipodpatcher 0...1...2...30, etc. - but no ipod is found.

Can anyone please help me, how I set up my ipod w/ rockbox starting at this point?

Tx a lot - !!

loboxx

[Febs]

Use the recovery tool in iTunes to restore the player, and then follow the installation instructions, which will explain step by step what you need to do to install  Rockbox.

[loboxx]

tx - somethimes solutions are so near... I wonder why I didn't think about doing this - tx a lot. In fact iTunes never was installed on my PC since I just bought this iPod and wanted to switch to rockbox right away (need .ogg and want to manage music by files and folders...).

cu loboxx

[loboxx]

ok - ran into next problem...

i did as recommended; and everything was fine until rebooting the iPod after installing the bootloader. Eversince the Ipod keeps reebooting:

1.) shows apple-logo
2.) shows rockbox-bootloader-text
3.) shows error; and reeboots right away -> 1.)

the iPod is not shown as a drive; holding Menu/Play for 6 seconds doesn't help; so the iPod keeps circling its boot again and again...

kind of a frustrating thing here... now I even can't recover it w/ iTunes...

Can somebody give me a hint what to do now?? Appreciate your thoughts...

loboxx

[Llorean]

Menu+Play doesnt do anything.

Menu+Select resets, Play+Select is disk mode, after a reset.

[loboxx]

hi there,

ok, had hold-witch on hold; what I now figured out makes a difference; rockbox now works and ... it really rocks... congratulations to the devellopers; this firmware makes an iPod a usable device!! (actually i now bought the iPod since I knew there will be rockbox!) tx a lot!

cu loboxx