Hi, thanks in advance for reading. 
I have a white Macbook 5,2 and an ipod touch 3G.
After restoring a previous system from Time Machine, reinstalling Snow Leopard and resetting PRAM and NVRAM, I plugged in my ipod (very low on battery). This message popped up:
"Because a USB device was drawing too much power from your computer, one or more of your USB devices have been disabled. To prevent damaging your computer, the USB device drawing too much power has been disabled. Other devices may also have been disabled. When you disconnect the device drawing too much power, your other USB devices will be enabled again."
My mac was connected to the power cord when this happened. This has never popped up before, not even when I tried to charge a dead ipod (due to dead battery).
So I unplugged the ipod, restarted the mac, then plugged in the ipod again, but it did not show up in iTunes. The iPod works normally and can even be charged via the mac, but I can't sync it.
I tried pressing down both the sleep/wake button and the home button to activate the restore mode, this time iTunes finally recognized it, but asked me to restore my ipod. I don't want to do that just yet - what if I still can't sync it after I restore it? Then I'd be left with an empty ipod that does nothing, arghh
Strangely enough, my external drive (which performed a backup perfectly during all this chaos) worked with both USB ports, so the problem isn't with the ports. Earlier today I also performed a hardware test which told me that nothing's wrong.
So what's the problem? I tried plugging in the ipod using two ipod touch cables too, one is the original that came from Apple, the other is a more durable one that I got from ebay. The "drawing too much power" message popped up when I was using the ebay cable, but I don't think it's the cable's fault because it had worked very well before.
Please help! Thank you very very much!
I have a white Macbook 5,2 and an ipod touch 3G.
After restoring a previous system from Time Machine, reinstalling Snow Leopard and resetting PRAM and NVRAM, I plugged in my ipod (very low on battery). This message popped up:
"Because a USB device was drawing too much power from your computer, one or more of your USB devices have been disabled. To prevent damaging your computer, the USB device drawing too much power has been disabled. Other devices may also have been disabled. When you disconnect the device drawing too much power, your other USB devices will be enabled again."
My mac was connected to the power cord when this happened. This has never popped up before, not even when I tried to charge a dead ipod (due to dead battery).
So I unplugged the ipod, restarted the mac, then plugged in the ipod again, but it did not show up in iTunes. The iPod works normally and can even be charged via the mac, but I can't sync it.
I tried pressing down both the sleep/wake button and the home button to activate the restore mode, this time iTunes finally recognized it, but asked me to restore my ipod. I don't want to do that just yet - what if I still can't sync it after I restore it? Then I'd be left with an empty ipod that does nothing, arghh
Strangely enough, my external drive (which performed a backup perfectly during all this chaos) worked with both USB ports, so the problem isn't with the ports. Earlier today I also performed a hardware test which told me that nothing's wrong.
So what's the problem? I tried plugging in the ipod using two ipod touch cables too, one is the original that came from Apple, the other is a more durable one that I got from ebay. The "drawing too much power" message popped up when I was using the ebay cable, but I don't think it's the cable's fault because it had worked very well before.
Please help! Thank you very very much!