ipod shuffle causing itunes to not respond

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ipod shuffle causing itunes to not respond

I have a 2nd (I think... little square) gen Shuffle. When I connect it to my computer (Win7 64 bit, well past min spec), iTunes stops responding. Sort of.

It takes about 30 minutes for iTunes to recognize the shuffle, but I cannot at any time interact with the program. Currently on 42 minutes of waiting after that to try to hit restore.

Also, Windows explorer takes about 15 minutes to detect the amount of space used (the icon in My Computer that shows disk space) and about 15 more minutes to open to the root of the shuffle.

Any help would be appreciated... currently just doing a wait and see thing. Its not like my computer is being slowed down.

Posted on Jul 11, 2014 7:48 PM

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Jul 11, 2014 8:06 PM in response to aswitz87

Was able to close iTunes, and eject the drive properly. Second attempt to connect it, and Windows came up with the "do you wish to scan for file system errors" box. Not sure on that... might make things worse?

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Jul 11, 2014 8:25 PM in response to aswitz87

Ok, so about 2 hours in and 2 tries, and iTunes finally found that it was, in short, messed up. Suggested restoring it (which resets it to the beginning). Which I am now doing.

Sorry for posting this since I didn't need help it seems. But for anyone who has a similar issue, try patience...

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Jul 11, 2014 8:45 PM in response to aswitz87

Crud... iTunes said it could not restore it due to unknown error 2005. Which sends me a link to the iPod reset utility. Which can't identify my Shuffle model (even though it was made for this model).

In short, my iPod no longer knows what it is.

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