iPod nano (1st gen) in recovery mode loop

Hi,
I have put an extensive amount of time into trying to get my daughter's iPod Nano (1st gen) out of this recovery mode loop to no avail. I have read about and tried all the most obvious solutions and nothing has gotten her Nano to get out of this loop.

I cannot re-map the drive -- Windows doesn't give me that option. I see and know how to change the drives but Disk Manager says this disk is "unreadable". I have forced the Nano into disk mode and again, cannot work with it.

THis whole problem arose after we upgraded to iTunes 7. There was no other change to the device (no mis-treatment...). It holds its battery charge, no problem. In a nutshell, it's a perfectly good, well-taken-care-of iPod Nano that has jammed b/c of Apple's 7.0 upgrade. We're a 4 iPod family and no one else's device reacted to 7.0 but hers.

Please help! How else can I get this iPod stable again?

Thanks,
Kacatlin

Dell, Windows XP

Posted on Sep 12, 2007 10:44 AM

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Nov 15, 2007 3:00 PM in response to philsmac

I have this same issue with a 2nd gen iPod. Being instructed to remap the drive letter when windows says the drive is unreadable is not an option. Not possible. The drive does not show in the top half of the device manager, so therefore cannot be right-clicked. Anyone have another suggestion? (the ipod exists in iTunes in a "restore loop" - I discovered it being unreadable when I tried to reformat it).

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