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reformating iPod mini

  • 08-08-2005 5:59pm
    #1
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,648 ✭✭✭✭


    hows it going, i recently got a new laptop and upon setting up my software for my iPod mini on it, the installation program gave me the following message:

    "this iPod needs to be reformatted for use on your PC. click on the update button below to run the iPod updater application that will allow you to reformat or restore your iPod"

    am i right in thinking that by doing this the music that is on it will be wiped?
    anybody have any experience with this??
    help very much appreciated,

    thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Yep anything on the iPod will be erased...


  • #3
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,648 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    why is this? surely they could allow for some households having a desktop and a laptop, or even two of any type of computer????


  • #4
    daveirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


    This post has been deleted.


  • #5
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,648 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    yeah but the problem is i forgot to mention my old computer was a mac, and the only method i can find involves buying expensive software - is there no other way to do this? i.e. back up my music from a mac formatted one to a pc? so as i can re format it then? i should have bought a creative


  • #6
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Do you not have a copy of the music somewhere else? On the old Mac for instance. Copy it on to CD, or external HD then to the PC. Shouldn't matter whats on the iPod. Its all coming from a PC/Mac somewhere. How else did you get it on there?


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  • #7
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,648 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    yeah i do but its just the effort of having to transfer it on again, just becauseim formatting it for the pc now means it all gets wiped off the player, just wondering if there was an easier way, but obviously not.
    this apples a bit of a granny smith


  • #8
    RicardoSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,264 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    ctrl-alt-delete wrote:
    yeah i do but its just the effort of having to transfer it on again, just becauseim formatting it for the pc now means it all gets wiped off the player, just wondering if there was an easier way, but obviously not.
    this apples a bit of a granny smith

    I moved about 100GB of data this evening from one drive to another. Only took about an hour or so via USB. Your iPod wouldn't take that long.


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