My brother brought an ipod nano a few months ago, it never worked in his computer but worked fine with everyone elses so I assumed the problem was with his computer and resolved to fix it when I had the time. He downloads every stupid dodgy piece of software he can get his hands on so it didnt seem to much of a stretch of the imagination to be this.
So i cleaned up the computer, removed all the viruses/spyware etc and it still didnt work. Then I formatted it and did a full reinstall and still no luck. All the drivers are updated, and apart from the ipod everything works perfectly. Including a whole host of other USB devices.
Formatted his ipod in my computer (also windowsXP) and still didnt work. Also tried changing cables and USB ports.
So I was starting to think there must be a hardware problem somewhere, but not sure what as the computer works fine with a whole host of other USB devices.
Tried my ipod in his computer, works perfectly! Which was odd.
So to sum up;
brothers ipod doesnt work in brothers computer, but works fine on any other computer (both pc and mac, ipod is windows formatted).
brothers computer works fine with any ipod except my brothers.
The only explination I can come to involves evil spirits, hopefully this is not the case.
So i cleaned up the computer, removed all the viruses/spyware etc and it still didnt work. Then I formatted it and did a full reinstall and still no luck. All the drivers are updated, and apart from the ipod everything works perfectly. Including a whole host of other USB devices.
Formatted his ipod in my computer (also windowsXP) and still didnt work. Also tried changing cables and USB ports.
So I was starting to think there must be a hardware problem somewhere, but not sure what as the computer works fine with a whole host of other USB devices.
Tried my ipod in his computer, works perfectly! Which was odd.
So to sum up;
brothers ipod doesnt work in brothers computer, but works fine on any other computer (both pc and mac, ipod is windows formatted).
brothers computer works fine with any ipod except my brothers.
The only explination I can come to involves evil spirits, hopefully this is not the case.
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