Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
So my friend that lives a few blocks away needed some files (larger than 4 GB). There was no way in hell that I was going to risk getting my cable connection capped on sending 4GB worth of files to him, so I stuck everything on my 30GB iPod and went off to his house with FireWire and setup CD. He has the same PC as me, so when I got there, we plugged in FireWire, iPod, and installed the software. Everything was done, and we went to look in the iPod H: drive to get the files, but it was empty! I figured he had the "do not show hidden file" option toggled on, but I couldn't have been more wrong. My 23GB+ collection of music/files/contacts were gone! A bit disappointing, but luckily I still have it all saved on my PC.
The moral of the story is, don't connect your iPod to a foreign computer because it will format it and you will lose all your stuff.
Now I am busy loading all my music back on. WAHOO!
[945 byte] By [
emfinite] at [2007-11-9 12:10:34]
# 1 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
I am going to assume that your friend's computer's program had auto-sync set up, therefore it erased everything on your iPod that wasn't on your friend's computer.
# 3 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
I don't think you should have to install anything, when using the iPod as an external HDD.
I put some stuff on my 2nd gen WinPod, and then plugged it into my friend's Windows XP computer, and it appeared as a drive. No extra software needed.
Henrik at 2007-11-15 14:19:17 >
# 4 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
yeah, the problem was installing the software. henrik?s got it figured out! he da man! :D
m.r.m. at 2007-11-15 14:20:23 >
# 5 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
Ahhh, thanks for the heads up. I guess I should have made a post before-hand asking how to go about doing this. It didn't auto-sync, I know that for a fact, because we didn't install MusicMatch, JUST the software that recognizes iPod (I guess you would call that the iPod software!).
Thanks
# 6 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
When you install the software it will format your ipod. Why did you install the software at all...
# 7 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
you shouldnt need any sfotware installed. If you just plug it into the firewire it should come up as a removeable harddrive. This is without music match, or anything for me (windows XP pro)
# 8 Re: Wow, my iPod formatted without me knowing! Read on...
Ya, I knew that part, but when I plugged it into his computer, it didn't recognize it as a drive, so I figured why not install the software. I didn't know it would format it!
We all learn from our mistakes...
