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ipod totally crashed

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mattycurtis

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 21, 2005
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accidently formatted my ipod on a pc and now my mac will not regonise it to for mat it back, silly me!
restarted it lots.
all I get is a symbol of a file and an exclaimaton mark in a triangle.
ipod won't even mount on the desktop, totaly unreadable! :mad: :eek:
 
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mattycurtis

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 21, 2005
25
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tried that

thanks, but i have already tried to restore, but the computer still says that there is nothing plugged in????
that is me problem see.
any ideas?

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i fixed it now thanks anyway.

[plugged in and held down many combinations of ipod buttons]
 
mad jew

mad jew

Moderator emeritus
Apr 3, 2004
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Adelaide, Australia
When you format it for a PC you need to plug it into the wall, not the Mac, to give it some charge to reset itself. Once you've done this, it should be fine for reformatting in a Mac. :)
 
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