[G4] Firewire issue

[Harry Freeman]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> On 31 Aug, 2007, at 14:45, Harry Freeman wrote:
>
>> If you can now see the iPod, format the iPod disk for Windows.
>>
>> When my granddaughter first got her iPod (about 4 years ago) we 
>> connected it to my Mac. and installed about 50 tunes on the device. 
>> When she got home and tried connecting it to their WINTEL platform 
>> she couldn't connect and install more tunes. So we had to erase all 
>> of the installed songs and reformat the HD.
>
> Doing what you suggest will make the iPod susceptible to all the 
> viruses that can affect any Windows formatted drive. Some iPods were 
> accidentally infected at an assembly plant with a Windows only virus a 
> couple of months ago and Apple apologized for releasing them to public 
> sales without checking them. Apple offered to repair the iPods if you 
> took them to an Apple store.
>
> You only need to format an iPod IF you intend to connect it to a 
> Windows machine. As long as you only use it with a Mac, you don't need 
> to format it again unless you cause serious problems in operating it 
> and need to do a hard reset.
>
> Of course it wasn't recognized. Windows machines are not capable of 
> recognizing anything that is not formatted as a Windows device. It 
> would not have been permitted to load because of the "alien" system 
> that is installed on it as a Mac iPod. The same conditions exist with 
> other devices such as Zip cartridges, floppy disks (remember those?), 
> flash drives, and memory sticks. If it is formatted as Mac, the 
> Windows machine won't be able to see it and may ask if you want to 
> initialize it. Tell it "NO" in big letters if it does ask

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