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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: GilloD on April 24, 2007, 04:23:02 PM

Title: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: GilloD on April 24, 2007, 04:23:02 PM
It's a long story, so here's the cheat sheet:

1- Girlfriends buys an iPod off of Ebay. It comes, it works, she hooks it up to her Mom's laptop. While it's syncing, the battery dies and it starts giving her the sad face iPod man. She puts it away for a few months until I agree to fix it.

2- I open it up, unplug and replug the hard drive, it works again. When we go to sync on her PC, it'll sync about 1000 songs and then it sounds like the hard drive gets "stuck". Click, whirr, click, whirr. It plays whatever is ON the iPod fine.

3- I sync it to my Powerbook no problem. Because my library>Her iPod size, it creates a playlist to sync with her iPod. This works fine. However, ANY change to the preferences instigates a "Can't find iPod" error.

4- Restored it on the PC and it gave one of those ?Folder warnings. Restored it on the Mac, syncs fine, but same problem with the preferences.

We did the business card+rubberband+hard drive trick. I'm confused as to what the problem is. We can sync it on the Mac, with the one playlist, but that's a little inconvienent. Any ideas?
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 04:26:09 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only have it be Windows compatible or Mac OS compatable. Not both.

Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: GilloD on April 24, 2007, 04:27:37 PM
Quote from: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 04:26:09 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only have it be Windows compatible or Mac OS compatable. Not both.



Sure. But teh point is that while it plays nicely with my Mac, it plays TERRIBLY with her PC. I recently restored it to OSX for this reason.
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: Tauntaun on April 24, 2007, 04:27:46 PM
napalm apple
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 04:29:10 PM
Do you know how to do the.... fuck, is it called a self-test?

What model iPod is it?
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: GilloD on April 24, 2007, 04:30:01 PM
It's a B+W 4th Gen, pre-Photo.
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 04:40:26 PM
Check this (http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/index.shtml) site out. You should run the diagnostic test on it, see if any of the sectors are bad. If so, that's your problem.
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: bluemax on April 24, 2007, 05:07:06 PM
Quote from: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 04:26:09 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but you can only have it be Windows compatible or Mac OS compatable. Not both.



Not true. If you format it on Windows then it'll work on both Mac and PC.

If you format it on OS X it only works on OS X.
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: Saint Cornelius on April 24, 2007, 05:13:25 PM
Ah... learn something new every day. My friend sent his new iPod to his friend, who loaded it all up with music... but from a Mac. He couldn't connect it to his PC so I thought it didn't work the other way around.
Title: Re: iPod goons: A confusing story, maybe you can help.
Post by: bluemax on April 24, 2007, 05:37:13 PM
Windows doesn't work well with HFS+. But OS X works with FAT32.