Upgrade to 3.0 Killed iPod touch

the same thing just happened to me. I just got the touch today, wanted to listen to it on the way to college (which is in less than 3 hours) and decided to upgrade to 3.0. Then after a little while, without the connection being interrupted or anything like that, i got "error ***, unknown error" and now the touch has the "connect to itunes" icon, and is not even recognized by my computer. all that comes up is the "connecting new hardware" and asks for drivers. I went through that and tried the iBoot driver, and it still isnt working. any suggestions? also tried the manual reboot with the windows and hold buttons. I also reinstalled itunes multiple times, along with restarting the system. I also searched online for the correct driver and manually installed it, and that didnt work either.

Eddie & MaqMaq,

Similar problems, similar fixes.

First off, make sure that Apple Mobile Device Services is up and running properly. See this article for details on how to do that: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567

Once you have that sorted out, most issues with the 3.0 update on Windows machines is caused by anti-virus and/or firewall software. Both of these should be disabled when downloading and installing iPod OS upgrades.

This is something for the Genius Bar at your nearest Apple store to handle.
Whatever it was that went wrong when you upgraded to 3.0 isn't something you can fix at home.

I got the same problem. Finally gave in and paid £5.99 for the priviledge, but every time I try to install the software my iPod is killed.

The only way I can get it back at all is to open Windows with a new account, then plug the iPod in. iTunes starts up and recognises my Touch as a brand new device. I then have to go through the same steps as when I first took the Touch out of the box. Once that is complete I can then go back to my usual Windows account, plug the iPod in and restore it (luckily I had synched and backed it up before trying to install OS 3.0).

Still unable to actually load the new OS though - a trip to my nearest (which is over 20 miles away!) Apple Store methinks.

Sad to see I am not the only one having this problem. Got my 2nd generationiPod 32GB las week and on day 2 decided to install V3.0 as some applications require it and it is supposed to bring me all these extra features.
The result: iPod completely locked up. I only get the iTunes connection screen but my PC does not see the iPod.
I will have to try to use the trick with the other account to see if that allows me to recover the old OS.
Really bad to see so many people with the same problem and no useful information coming from Apple itself.
Apple can expect a request to give me my money back for V3.0.!!