# Friday, February 15, 2008
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iTunes messages not getting any better despite constant updates!

Out of the blue I got this message from iTunes today:

iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode.  You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.

Fair enough, foo happens, life goes on.  Or so I thought.  When you restore your iPod and reboot it, the same message comes back!  Over and over.

The solution, it turns out according to the collective wisdom of the blogs, is to change the drive letter of your iPod in Computer Manager.

Mine had, for reasons not yet understood, changed from J: to H: - which was in use as a network-mapped home drive.  This conflict was being reported in iTunes as an iPod in Recovery Mode.

It seems like all I do these days is download iTunes updates, and the messages are not getting any better when it goes belly-up.

Apple, this is turning into a one way relationship!

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Friday, February 15, 2008 1:57:52 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time, UTC+11:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:33:13 AM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time, UTC+11:00)
From my understanding, all music players are just glorified usb drives. The fact that iTunes can't find the iPod files it is expecting implies that there is something wrong with the iPod or that the drive hasn't mounted for some reason.

iTunes could search other drives, but I would consider that to be dangerous behaviour (as a default). Is there a safe way to probe the status of all drives without firing off the usual "Please insert disk in A:" popup dialog?

Most people at my work have had to learn how to change a drive letter in "Computer Managment". Drive letter conflicts are a common occurrence for us because we still use Novell :).

Robert
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:32:48 AM (AUS Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10:00)
Hey James,

Actually i've had this problem over and over and over and over again for my ipods and it didn't seem to get any better.

i've totally dropped using ITunes these days...fed up with it..especially after a Safari installation snuck itself in. Was running (yet another) update on ITunes one late night and didn't notice that there was a second item on the list of components to install..Safari..

now why on earth would i want Safari????

anyways, the problem has been 100% resolved (and i think you can take a page out of this book)...i've gotten myself a Zune...HA!!! more fool on your for using an IPod then! i hope you get to enjoy constantly having fun with this problem. Just wait till you actually have extra USB drives attached...same ol' story all over again..each time.

Brian H. Madsen | brian dot madsenAT NOSPAMbusinessobjectmodels dot com
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