Monday, July 09, 2007

iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode

I have an iPod of the 5th Generation for about a year now and use it whenever i can. At work i use iTunes to control the iPod, but i am not using it for sharing my music otherwise.

Now i had this problem that iTunes showed an Error "..iPod in recovery mode.." ... what the hack? Since i sync my iPod with my home iTunes i had to recover it there (although it did not have any Problems).. now i tried it again at work: same Problem..

After a quick search i found this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304503

It suggest that the Drive Letter the iPod wants to use is used already... and that was the whole Problem all the time.

Now i ask: Why the hell could it not say it at the first sign? I mean it did never occur to me that this could be a Problem.

The Drive Letter support with USB and Network was always a Problem with XP (which had to be configured by hand) but at least there could be some information at iTunes.

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