blackdiamondbay
07-20-2005, 02:00 PM
I bought a 40GB iPod (with click wheel) in November 2004. I used it with my dad's dell laptop (windows) because my desktop (windows) was so old that it did not have even a USB 1.0. I bought a powerbook g4 (with tiger installed, plus I also have the 10.4.2 update) in mid-june, and I have been using my ipod with it since. Just a few days ago, my ipod stopped mounting on my computer, after working with it for about a month. It happened when I was trying to connect both my and my sister's ipod to my computer at the same time (mine with firewire and her's with usb). Since then, my ipod has not worked on my computer. When connected with either firewire or usb, it displays the "do not disconnect" image, and begins showing that circle with arrows in the upper left hand corner. However, the ipod does not mount on my computer (doesn't show up in the desktop or in itunes). As far as I can tell, it is not a problem with my computer, as my sister's ipod still mounts on my computer using both firewire and usb. Also, my ipod shows up on my sister's windows laptop, so it seems to be a problem with my ipod when used with mac os. And my ipod also still works in its normal form (disconnected from computer and playing on headphones).
I have done the following things to try to save my ipod:
-reseting (menu + select)
-disk mode and/or restore (menu +select, next+prev)
-downloading the new ipod software update, but i cannot use it since my computer does not recognize it.
if anyone could help me out, that would be great. just to check, if someone whose ipod works could plug it in and go to system profiler and post the information that it gives for their ipod, it would probably help. mine is pretty normal, except that it leaves out some of the sections that are usually there in system profiler for the ipod. i know that it says "s.m.a.r.t. - no" when i think that it should say yes. i also tried to use disk utility. it shows up in there, but when i try to mount it using the button on the toolbar on top, it says that it won't work and that i have to do first aid on the ipod, which never works either . . . i don't know what to do. please help.
I have done the following things to try to save my ipod:
-reseting (menu + select)
-disk mode and/or restore (menu +select, next+prev)
-downloading the new ipod software update, but i cannot use it since my computer does not recognize it.
if anyone could help me out, that would be great. just to check, if someone whose ipod works could plug it in and go to system profiler and post the information that it gives for their ipod, it would probably help. mine is pretty normal, except that it leaves out some of the sections that are usually there in system profiler for the ipod. i know that it says "s.m.a.r.t. - no" when i think that it should say yes. i also tried to use disk utility. it shows up in there, but when i try to mount it using the button on the toolbar on top, it says that it won't work and that i have to do first aid on the ipod, which never works either . . . i don't know what to do. please help.