Here's some advice from apple discussions that might help.
Success!!!!!
I decided to roll back and found my orginal iPod CD. Instead of uninstalling iTunes, I just threw the CD in. The CD updated my updater, complained about iTunes already being installed, restarted the computer, and booyah! My 5.1 iTunes talks and shares music with my iPod!
I guess I'll buy the round for myself...
iPod Color 60G; Windows XP
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b noir
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carrboro, nc well done Jake!(three of you now)
I decided to roll back and found my orginal iPod CD. Instead of uninstalling iTunes, I just threw the CD in. The CD updated my updater, complained about iTunes already being installed, restarted the computer, and booyah!
sorry to be a nuisance, but this is the best lead we've had on this in what seems like an eternity. would you mind letting us know what model ipod you're using:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688
... and what software version you used to get it working?
love, b
gateway, p4; Windows XP; sp2, 20 gb b&w, 20 gb color (attractive beast)
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Jake Stokes
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Posts: 5 Not a problem,
My iPod is an iPod photo (60 GB) (also known as iPod with color display) 2004-10 Click Wheel 60 GB 1.2
The CD I used to update the updater was the iPod 3.0.2 CD.
To go one step farther I've uploaded the Updater portion of the CD I used to the following url for download, hope it helps, size is 15.5MB:
http://www.stokeswebdesign.com/Updater.zip
-Jake
iPod Color 60G; Windows XP
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squish
Joined: Sep, 2005
Posts: 1 Jake thanks for posting that updater. I have an ipod photo 40gig, I tried using the CD I got it had the (10-2004) version of the updater. I had uninstalled itunes and ipod, so I later installed 5.01 and installed the updater from the cd. I still got the same communcation error.
After playing around, I finally uninstalled itunes and the updater again, and I deleted both the itunes and the ipod folders off the program files.
Then reinstalled, itunes, and then installed the updater I got from Jake (i think its version 08-2004). Finally I was able to get my itunes an ipod communicating again.