Help with 5g iPod.

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WormBuffet

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I need some help with my new iPod. For one reason or another I can't get it to connect to my new computer. It's a custom build and everything else works fine as my mouse and keyboard are both Usb. But my iPod doesn't show up in Itunes or in My Computer. The only indication that it's plugged in is the safely remove hardware icon. in the task bar. I f anyone is having similar problems and has any solutions I'd really like the help.
 
do you have any mapped network drives?.. windows will try and take your ipod and make it the first available letter even tho you may have mapped it to a network share.. itunes doesn't like it very much either..
 
I agree, restart your computer, make sure you have iTunes installed too lol.
 
I ran into this problem as well when I first got my iPod Video.

I tried 3 different USB ports, finally the one on the side of my LCD works.
 
Well thanks for the restarting idea :p , but that didn't work. It could be that I have some virtual drives for games. That could cause the problem that (7\) stated. I'll try to get rid of my virtual drives if possible and try it out.
 
Unfortunately the virtual drive removal did not fix the problem. I figured maybe it couldn't work unless it was the next available drive after C: . COuld still use some help with this one!!!!
 
plug in the ipod.. right click my computer and hit manage.. then go into the volume manager.. you should see the C: volume.. and possibly your ipod volume.. if you do assign it a drive letter within there.. if not then i would suspect your usb plug.. or cable.. or faulty ipod..

another thing to check is plug it in and go into the device manager.. if you see a red splat on anything.. that could flag a problem..
 
It souds like your computer recognizees it but not iTunes. It could be that the iPod needs to be updated. Have you run iPod updater? Try that. See if it works. Just a hunch, I'm not completely sure.
 
I tried the volume management tool but everytime and I got nothing except I managed somhow to open the folder but had no links to it of any kind. I still doesn't show up in My Computer or in iTunes.

And when I try to use the updater it asks me to plug in an iPod. When I disconnect it and plug it back in it freezes up. If I wait a couple minutes it finally says that it can't mount the iPod. I don't think it's a USB problem since I've tried all my ports and I have other things plugged into them that work just fine (G15 LCD Screen). But I don't know how i would fix a driver issue since all of the USB 2.0 drivers come from MS Updates.

Again any more help is appreciated. Thanks so far.
 
It says do not diconnect just like any other iPod would. i should also mention that this isn't a problem with the iPod as i have plugged it into my old Dell since it would not work on this one and have uploaded my old library with no problem whatsoever. So the problem is with either my USB ports or Windows.
 
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