I use my iPod at home but need to connect it to my pc at work to transfer files...but when I connect it to the PC it wants to reformat the drive, how come?
Can I not plug into the pc, and plug into the mac and just have it work?
I use my iPod at home but need to connect it to my pc at work to transfer files...but when I connect it to the PC it wants to reformat the drive, how come?
Can I not plug into the pc, and plug into the mac and just have it work?
You need to format it as a PC iPod. Your mac will read it just fine as PC disk and it will work as an iPod. I *think* PC iPods don't do smart playlists, but it will update fine on your mac other than that.
I believe it should work both ways...last time I checked. That is if it's a 3rd Gen. iPod. Any other one will have to be formated for it to be switched back and forth.
I believe it should work both ways...last time I checked. That is if it's a 3rd Gen. iPod. Any other one will have to be formated for it to be switched back and forth.
What happens with the 3G iPods is that it automatically formats itself to the OS you're using. But what he wants is to use the iPod as a hard drive for the PC not as an iPod, per se. The only way you can do this is to either: format the iPod as PC format so the Windows machine can read the drive or install something like MacDrive which costs money. I'd just format it as a PC iPod and go that way.
But Don't let Windows format it for you!! Make sure you format it using whatever the iPod needs for it to be a PC iPod. If you let Windows format it, you may break it.
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Originally posted by Jay Contonio
I use my iPod at home but need to connect it to my pc at work to transfer files...but when I connect it to the PC it wants to reformat the drive, how come?
Can I not plug into the pc, and plug into the mac and just have it work?
You need to format it as a PC iPod. Your mac will read it just fine as PC disk and it will work as an iPod. I *think* PC iPods don't do smart playlists, but it will update fine on your mac other than that.
Originally posted by DMBand0026
I believe it should work both ways...last time I checked. That is if it's a 3rd Gen. iPod. Any other one will have to be formated for it to be switched back and forth.
What happens with the 3G iPods is that it automatically formats itself to the OS you're using. But what he wants is to use the iPod as a hard drive for the PC not as an iPod, per se. The only way you can do this is to either: format the iPod as PC format so the Windows machine can read the drive or install something like MacDrive which costs money. I'd just format it as a PC iPod and go that way.
But Don't let Windows format it for you!! Make sure you format it using whatever the iPod needs for it to be a PC iPod. If you let Windows format it, you may break it.