Hello, long saga here:

I had a 10 gb new generation iPod running with mmjb just fine. I wanted to reformat my hard disk, which I did, blowing away my music collection. So, I installed ephPod to download the songs from my iPod to disk. Fine so far.

However, once I installed ephPod, none of the origional iPod software, the updater, iPod manager or mmjb, would recognise the iPod. ephPod still worked though.

Question 1: does ephPod conflict with the origional software in some way? I did try to uninstall both sets of software and reinstall mmjb, to no avail.

Ok, now, I bought a 30gb iPod to replace my 10gb which was getting full. So I uninstalled all the ipod software, mmjb, updater, manager and ephod, and then installed all the software that came with the new iPod. No go.

So then I installed ephPod. It prompts me to create the directory structure on the iPod, then gives me the error something like - can't create iPod_controll. Also, when navigating to the ipod disk in explorer, I get the message that the disk has not been formatted.

Question 2: Do I have to format the disk in explorer to get ephPod to work?

Thanks,
Sam