iPad is Disabled Please connect to iTunes

Because the OS on my iMac is not running Catalina that means that I am not running the latest version of iTunes and because of not having the latest version of iTunes I could not do either iOS update or a restore on the iPad. Apparently as I understand it iTunes is linked/connected/imbedded into the OS now there was no way for me to just install the latest version of iTunes to accomplish the restore on the iPad.

Therefore, I had to download the newest version of iTunes on a Windows machine to be able to update/restore the iOS on a brand new iPad. A bit ironic that I would have to depend on Windows to fix my Mac issues, never in a million years would I have thought that to be necessary.

Hello,

Thank you for trying to assist.

I tried following the 2nd link that you posted and I got the following errors (see attached screen grabs).

Before trying to do the iOS Update/Restore I checked to make sure that I have the latest iTunes for Mojave.

Then I tried to do that update of the iOS software and that failed. I got this message.

Then I tried to do a Restore: but got this message:

So I followed the link that is found under the more button in this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201210

I followed all of those recommendations, rebooting both the iMac and the iPad but I got this message:

Then I followed this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201444 and it is suggesting that I update the OS on my iMac. I can not at this time update to Catalina because Catalina will break all of my Adobe software. 32bit->64bit.

Is there anything else that can be done?