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ipod firmware restoration utility?
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Hey guys whats up? Anyway, so I'm pretty pissed off at apple right now. I just downloaded Itunes 7 after refusing to for so long, and having not used my ipod in a while. Anyway, I also have a much larger, and different colleciton of music now, so I (like I always do when I have a big addition to my collection) went to restore my ipod to factory setting, wiping it completely, to give it a fresh start (because I've, while getting my additonal music, redid all my ID3 tags). So, yea, I use Itunes to restore my ipod, and lo-and-behold, my ipod isn't being detected by itunes anymore.
After some checking, and searching, and a lot of hitting, I found out my firmware had become corrupt, and all I did was update to the newest version of itunes and restore factory setting. Wierd, huh? Yea, I though. Thus I picked up my telephone, and phoned up apple, who denied my fucking service.
Anyway, what I need now, and hopefully one of you can help me, or can find one (I've been searching for hours), is a ipod firmware restoration utility. No, I don't need to restore my ipod by plugging it into my computer and going through itunes like all the fucking useless apple help files tell me to, but I need a utility that will do it for me, as if I had no other apple product on my computer.
An advanced thanks to anyone who may help me.
(and to anyone who is wondering why a no-name troll is asking for help, is because I know with the huge gorup of people, and the vast knowledge you must all share, someone must have even the slightest idea of what might be done here)
After some checking, and searching, and a lot of hitting, I found out my firmware had become corrupt, and all I did was update to the newest version of itunes and restore factory setting. Wierd, huh? Yea, I though. Thus I picked up my telephone, and phoned up apple, who denied my fucking service.
Anyway, what I need now, and hopefully one of you can help me, or can find one (I've been searching for hours), is a ipod firmware restoration utility. No, I don't need to restore my ipod by plugging it into my computer and going through itunes like all the fucking useless apple help files tell me to, but I need a utility that will do it for me, as if I had no other apple product on my computer.
An advanced thanks to anyone who may help me.
(and to anyone who is wondering why a no-name troll is asking for help, is because I know with the huge gorup of people, and the vast knowledge you must all share, someone must have even the slightest idea of what might be done here)
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You've not said what variety of iPod you're using, and which operating system, which is going to make troubleshooting harder. I'm going to assume it's an iPod with a screen, and that you're on Windows - feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Your best bet I would imagine would be to force your iPod into disk mode, hopefully making it visible to Windows and iTunes again. Follow the instructions here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Once in disk mode, you should be able to perform a firmware reset in the usual manner.