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recurring "Ipod in Recovery mode, please restore" message
neiltaffy
25-08-2009
OK This is a problem thats been aggravating me for most of last night (and if I ramble, apologies. I was up till the early hours trying to fix it)

I know there are a multitude of sites including the Apple one offering a solution to this problem, but this doesnt seem to help me. I still get the same problem.

I use the latest version of iTunes on WinXP. I have several drives on my PC (2 DVD, Mem Card Reader..all casued no problems before). My Ipod 5th Gen was working fine up until yesterday, until I recived a message to say that its library had become corrupted. It recommended doing a restore etc.

All worked well...but it didnt resynch and now I am getting a recurring "Your Ipod is in recovery mode and needs to be restored" message.

Apple et al. suggest changing the IPod drive letter to something else, like M: which I duly did (C-K are taken up with DVD drives and Mem Card Slots and 1 removable disk). I *think* my Ipod letter drive had jumped to E: that day for some reason, though cant be sure. However this mesage is still reappearing whenever I restore my Ipod and thus preventing resynching with my Itunes Library.

So, in short, Help
strawberry66
25-08-2009
Hi
Have you enabled it as a disk drive and done an anti virus scan on it?
neiltaffy
26-08-2009
Hi Strawberry66,

Yes I enabled it as a disk drive. It shows up in Windows. I managed to restore it all too briefly last night, changing the drive letter as suggested by Apple and by restoring it via iTunes, taking the usb cable out when the ipod boots up with firmware (i.e. when the apple logo shows and the bar grows underneath it) and resetting by menu+select.

It then was recognised by my Itunes and great I thought, started to synch, but I then got a few errors (-69 errors). I tried again today and the Itunes software says my ipods music library is corrupted. (Even though some of the music it has problems with plays fine on my pc and in itunes itself!).

I am now back to a blank ipod with text on teh displey along the lines of "Connect to your computer, use itunes to restore".

..of course if you try that then itll just end up being unrecognised all over again.
IvanIV
26-08-2009
Does it look OK after the restore? I would try it with another iTunes library, with just a few files to see if that works. It's possible that your PC itunes library really is corrupted. Try to make a backup of it if you get any errors. Also I would try to run chkdsk on the ipod disk to see if there are any problems there.
neiltaffy
26-08-2009
The ipod kind of worked for a bit; i managed about 1900 tracks from my 2500 on there, but it reset again after that.

I have backed up my tracks the other day (when I figured something was up). As I say the tracks play OK in Itunes even some of the video clips that suposedly have problems.

When you say the Itunes library by the way, do you mean the Itunes database file?
IvanIV
27-08-2009
I meant the files on your PC. But it looks like there might be a problem with ipod's disc. Probably each time it reaches the problematic spot, it crashes. I'd try to run chkdsk on it, if this is the problem the programme will mark defective areas and iTunes will skip them too while loading the files.
neiltaffy
27-08-2009
ok thanks Ivan- will give this a try. Ive run chkdsk to no effect on the iPod

Im away fror a few days now until Monday so Ill let you know how things progress, thanks for your time in the meantime
IvanIV
27-08-2009
It would help if you could use another ipod to synchronise or synchronise yours with somebody else's library to see on which end the problem is. How long were you using the latest itunes? They changed something in preparation for 3.0 OS for iTouch, maybe they managed to break something. I heard some people complaining after upgrade. It says itunes needs XP SP2 or later, I guess that's so in your case. Do you remember doing any change to your PC configuration that could cause this? If you have a restore point back in time when it all worked I'd try to restore it (and make a current restore point first so that you can go back). That's a lot of things to try, but it's really just trying at this point.
neiltaffy
28-08-2009
Yeah am going to try another iPod i think if I can get hold of one. Im also thinking of doing another iTunes library on my 2nd pc (laptop) which has Vista.

As for my own PC I hsvrnt done anything to it this week, or installed anything. So am a bit perplexed by all this.

I manually transferred some songs over, but it seems to have problems on big files, giving the error -69 message.


Im at the Reading festival at the mo, so will try all this when I come back.
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