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yes, you need to format the ipod for windows, using windows. I too have an Ipod and i love it dearly.. lol. But you need to format it under windows to make it run in windows. Basically, i cannot take my ipod and try it on a mac because it doesn't recognize it. Hope that helps ya

  Nestea_M@n said:
yes, you need to format the ipod for windows, using windows. I too have an Ipod and i love it dearly.. lol. But you need to format it under windows to make it run in windows. Basically, i cannot take my ipod and try it on a mac because it doesn't recognize it. Hope that helps ya

Wait, here, you confused me a little bit. So I formatted the thing in Windows and that did not help.

Am I supposed to format it in Windows with an Apple utility?

I don't know what you guys are talking about, but when I first got my iPod, I formatted it on my Mac, and now I take it inbetween my Mac and PC and it is flawless. I use it on both with no problem. I have also used it on both with a windows format. It does not matter what computer you used to format.

The only thing I noticed is that whatever computer you format it on, needs to be the same computer that you use to update the software on the iPod when a software update comes out.

Well that is very interesting, because my dad first used it on our mac, then brought it to the windows computer and for some strange reason it won't work at all. We even went as far as reformatting the whole disk in FAT 32 in Windows and I just plugged it into the Mac again and none of those files were actually erased!

Could someone walk an idiot through this? I have no trouble whatsoever with Windows native applications and hardware. I have personally never experienced as much difficulty trying to get something to "work right."

Thanks for all of your help thus far!

I really appreciate it.

  adamp2p said:
Man! Let me tell you something. As an owner of a Mac and Windows PC's Mac users know so much less about their computers than windows, ****!

It takes 100X longer to get a response here than on any other forum!

You're kidding, right? First post was at 14:45 (what it says), first response 4min later, that's not bad. Are you just waiting around for an answer to do this?

Oh, and you are asking to format a Mac formatted iPod over to Windows, wouldn't this be more apporiate maybe in the normal hardware section? =P The PDA, Tablet & Mobile Devices forum is where a lot of the iPod posts are at now. =P That and you also have to figure in that there are less Mac users here than Windows users, thus the response time might be a little on the slow side.

Did you try going to Apple's website and downloading the iPod software? http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ is your link for the download.

You have to be a bit more patient than what you are, you only waited a little over an hour to post again to complain about the response time. =P

  adamp2p said:
Well that is very interesting, because my dad first used it on our mac, then brought it to the windows computer and for some strange reason it won't work at all. We even went as far as reformatting the whole disk in FAT 32 in Windows and I just plugged it into the Mac again and none of those files were actually erased!

Could someone walk an idiot through this? I have no trouble whatsoever with Windows native applications and hardware. I have personally never experienced as much difficulty trying to get something to "work right."

Thanks for all of your help thus far!

I really appreciate it.

I really didn't do anything special. I just plugged the iPod into my Mac, ran it through the setup and then began copying files over. After all my music was there, I went over to my windows machine, installed the iPod software and iTunes. Opened iTunes, connected the firewire cord, the little tooltip popped up saying that an iPod was found. It then worked flawlessly.

This is a third generation iPod we are talking about right?

  • 3 weeks later...

You question has been answered already, yet you seem to be still in search for one.

You also show anger and impatience, and these gratuitous comments will only make people less willing to help you. Be patient.

As I said, the answer to your question is already right before your eye: Download the iPod software updater for Windows and format the iPod using that. Pay attention, it shall serve you right.

  KeR said:
yes you do....every time you use it on a different computer or mac you will need to re-format.

NO NO NO! So incorrect.

The generation of the iPod doesn't matter. 1st and 2nd gen came pre-formatted to fat32 for windows and HFS+ for OSX. The 3rd Gen ipod doesn't come formatted. Whatever system you plug it into first...windows or osx...it will automatically format to that file system. Also, OS X will read FAT32, NTFS and HFS+, but windows will not read HFS+.

If you have an iPod formatted with HFS+, it will not work with windows unless you have certain 3rd party software. I used EphPod in this situation and it worked perfectly.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60920#faq6

Read questions 6, 7, and 8.

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