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Morganti:
Having done the same thing on christmas eve, then succuessfully repaired my unit...

Step 1 : Boot Ipod into Disk Mode
Step 1a : Plug Ipod into pc and let charge for a bit
Step 2: Reformat Ipod as a fat32 drive using windows explorer.
Step 2a : Download and install Itunes
Step 3: After the reformat is finished, use Itunes to restore ipod
Step 4: Follow offical 5.5g install instructions located here

This should set you up with a working install of Rockbox.

~D~

Sentertainment:
Yeah, I've done all this...
All my partition managers and crap wont let me acess the iPod, let alone some don't even detect it.

Anyways, I uninstalled my main linux OS a while back (currently have some really old distro installed that I never finished setting up)...anyways, I primarily use windows and wanted to know if there is any way to get this to work.

I read articles about fixing the partition in linux, but even so many were having trouble...
any suggestions?

Sentertainment:
hmmm....
well, I just tried formatting it using qtparted (downloaded a live linux i used to use), then when I got into windows (2000), it told me it wasnt formatted....
I'm not sure if windows is doing something wrong, but I am reformatting it in windows either way.

I'll see how the install goes this time...I actually think I may try rockbox w/o restoring my ipod in iTunes.

Also...are people having more luck doing this on a mac?
if so I can possibly get ahold of one to use...

Sentertainment:
got it working...
I did like 5 things differently at once...so I have not a clue what actually made a dif.
1) used a different patcher file, seems I had the latest but it wasnt the new version with the automated patching???
2) formatted under linux
3) windows didn't like something about the format under linux...reformatted
4) followed the 'Beta' instructions 100% since the '-a' attribute worked for me
and I forget what else I did....lol :P

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