iPod: Using as an external HD?

[Mojo]

When you plug it into any USB enabled computer, does the drive just appear under "My Computer" or whatever as an external HD and you can move stuff freely like that, or what?

How does the process work?

 

[legato]

FOr me, I'm running a mini on my pc...
Basically when you pop that sucker in via the usb, it detects as a portable
mass storage device...So yeah you see it pop up like any other
device such as usb or firewire hard drives.

 

[Blue Knight]

Yep, just like legato said. Plug is in, and it shows up as a protable media drive.

Note though that the music on the player, and files on the hard drive are separate. Music on an iPod can only be ported in with iTunes and you won't see them in windows. You can put music with windows and move it to another computer, but then you can't play it inside the player. That's the only thing that sucks, but it's apple's way of keeping their music copy protected.

 

[TekieB]

*cough*EPHpod*cough* and *cough*(hidden)/ipod_control*cough*

thats a hint about where to get the music off of it...

I've had some problems with win2k recognizing it when using USB, firewire works fine. and both work fine in server2k3

 

[ya cha cha]

or a better hint is ipod agent