Why does MS Windows still use drive letters when every other OS in the world does not? I don’t have a clue, but it made me lose EVERYTHING on my iPod tonight.. I went to sync up some new songs to it and to charge it up (havn’t done it in a while) and every time I connected the iPod, iTunes would say that it detected a iPod in recovery mode and that I needed to “restore” it and update the firmware. What is weird is it played fine, so I could not figure out what was wrong, but since it had been in my bag for about 2 months with out any attention maybe something got borked so I said what the heck and told it to restore it. (Which wipes everything off of my ipod.) So I finish the little process and now iTunes still says that the iPod is in restore mode. So I went to google and looked around and found This Apple info doc. The key and what pissed me off the most is this:
If after restoring your iPod, the message described above reappears, the iPod drive letter may need to be reassigned.
See the “Change the Drive Letter” section of this document for steps to assign a different drive letter.
Why on earth couldn’t they have made their error message a little more descriptive in iTunes.. So I go in and the iPod wanted to use the H drive for some reason. That drive is in use by a network share from my Solaris 10 machine. So I changed the iPod to use I drive and now it works fine.. What sucks is now I have to reload all my music on to it. So I guess what this is about is, if you have an iPod and are using iTunes on Windows and get that error. Check your drive letters before you restore it, it might save you a ton of work. The other thing, drop windows and just move to a mac, which is what I am going to do with my iPod now.