Interestingly, I was about to post a similar thread. I'm guessing I have a dead battery. I leave mine in to charge, then occasionally iTunes "sees" it, and hits me with a dialog saying something like "iTunes has detected an iPod that needs to be restored". When I click OK, iTunes no longer "sees" the Nano. 1st gen Nano, plugging into Powerbook with iTunes 8.01/Tiger 10.4.11 On Nov 19, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Becca wrote: > I've done the reset magic a few times to reboot it. You can see the > books and music I've got on it, but it won't select and play anything. > > I tried to restore it but it won't register with iTunes (using > Windows XP). It's not the fault of iTunes: it works just fine with > my old gen2 nano. I tried connecting the hosed iPod to my son's > computer to restore it, and it won't register with his copy of > iTunes either. > > any suggestions how I can salvage this? > > -becca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > iTunes mailing list > iTunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/itunes