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NickCat11
07-10-2009, 08:25 PM
Hello Everyone,

I have a customer's Ipod here that is a 30gb video style pod. When plugging in the Ipod to the computer, the computer will not recognize the Ipod at all. No sign of it in device manager, disk management, etc. The Ipod is getting power from the usb port though since it powers on when connected. Here is what I tried so far;

1. Different connecting cable
2. Tried on a different PC
3. Reset the Ipod
4. Tried multiple usb ports
5. Forced the Ipod into disk mode

Had no luck with any of these. Right now I am draining the battery completely down in hopes that a power cycle might do it, but I doubt it. Any ideas? Hopefully there is something I am missing.

As a side note, the Ipod has 5200 songs on it and they aren't backed up on the pc. The customer downgraded from Vista to XP himself and didn't bother saving the songs since they were already on his Ipod. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Blues
07-10-2009, 08:27 PM
I believe in a previous thread of mine or someone elses about iPods there was mention of diagnostics mode. I think there are some options in there that may help.

NickCat11
07-10-2009, 08:30 PM
I'll give that a look and report back. Thanks

NickCat11
07-10-2009, 08:41 PM
Passed all the diagnotic tests...

Blues
07-13-2009, 01:25 PM
Try a new cable maybe there is something wrong with that... though I would have thought it would pick up even that. I would also suggest trying another iPod atleast in hard disk mode to see if it is the PC given you tried the iPod on a different PC I doubt that is it.

NickCat11
07-13-2009, 01:38 PM
I ended up giving up. He took it to an apple store and they said it was a damaged data pin which needed replaced. Crazy thing is, is that when I plugged it into my car adapter, it worked fine and charged perfectly. I guess maybe there are seperate data and power pins. Either way they charged him a pretty penny to have it fixed.

Blues
07-13-2009, 02:06 PM
I ended up giving up. He took it to an apple store and they said it was a damaged data pin which needed replaced. Crazy thing is, is that when I plugged it into my car adapter, it worked fine and charged perfectly. I guess maybe there are seperate data and power pins. Either way they charged him a pretty penny to have it fixed.

Yes the data and charging/power pins are typically kept seperate to reduce chances of damage to data via electrical charges.