IPOD ERROR 1418

I am trying to restore a 4GB 1st generation black iPod nano, and I'm getting a 1418 error consistently at about 10% of the status bar.

It's not a problem with the iPod itself, Windows can see it just fine. I can copy files to it with third party software just fine, and I can boot the iPod into diagnostic and disk modes. I just can't make it think it's an iPod anymore. It starts up to tell me that I need to restore it with iTunes, and iTunes recognizes that it's "in recovery mode".

The problem is not with Windows (Vista 64 bit), it worked previously just fine until the iPod/iTunes corrupted themselves trying to update a playlist. It's also not a problem with the USB cable or the USB port, as I can copy files onto it with third party software.

Running iPod diagnostics gives me a yellow light on ipodservice, and a red light on ipodhelper. I assume that the red light for ipodhelper is caused by the yellow light on ipodservice. The ipodservice.dll file seems to be buggy, and no amount of reinstalling seems to be correcting this.

I've tried using an earlier version of ipodupdater and manually launching the ipodservice.dll that ships with that, but that shuts off after a few seconds, most likely because it's not 64 bit code.

I have a very strong hunch that an earlier version of iTunes will fix this (the old version of ipodservice appears to be stable/correct from what I can put together), but I can't find a 64 bit version of it. Is there one that anybody can point me to?

im having the same problem i sent mine back to apple and got it back working, then as soon as i plug it in to my pc i get a message saying i need to restore my ipod, so i try to restore it and i now have the folder with ! and im getting the 1418 error again!!!. ive tried everything with no luck so any help would be appritiated.

Karl

Got the same error, did all of the restore steps and when the iPod is finally starting to upload the songs, about the second song it gives me a cannot read or write to Disk error. So much for iPod, 6 days old... I still can fix it with a hammer..:-(

I resolved the problem by restoring it on a different PC, which I don't have any specs for.

The problem is fixable, so it's not an ipod, usb port, usb cable or computer issue (as it's working just fine on the original PC as I type). Once it occurs on a specific computer, uninstalling and reinstalling itunes doesn't fix it.

That says to me that the problem exists somewhere on the PC, and that it's something that isn't removed with an itunes uninstall. I would look towards the registry entries for itunes 7.x first, and if that doesn't turn anything up, somebody should scan for files updated or changed or created in the last 10 minutes after installing itunes 7.x on a PC that it has never been installed on before. Once we know exactly what it puts on a pc, and what it changes, we'll know where to look for whatever's gone corrupt to cause this.

I'd also be interested to know if a corrupted itunes 7.x install is able to restore a flash based ipod that isn't reporting a 1418 error yet. That could narrow things down to the ipod specific registry entries or any files on the hd that may be associated with it.

Ello,
I had the exact same problem, then I came across a beautiful little program that fixed it. This is specifically for iPod Shuffle 1st Generation! I don't know how to find it for other models and I'm too lazy.
Anyway: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303979

~Kit

laptop Windows XP