Feeling rather brave (some would say foolish!) after reading other posts on this site, I have been experimenting with reformatting and repartitioning my iPod and the good news is that so long as you have the iPod Updater, the device seems pretty much indestructible and can always be resurrected with this utility.
I have tried single and multiple partitions in FAT16, FAT32, HFS and HFS+ formats and have come to the conclusion that the iPod will only function as an MP3 player when it has been partitioned by the iPod Updater and contains a single HFS+ volume. Some other combinations - such as a single HFS volume are recognised by iTunes which happily copies over all its songs, but leave the iPod baffled once it comes out of FireWire mode.
The German magazine report quoted on this site's home page is definitely wrong. All you need is the iPod Updater and no matter what condition the drive is in, it can be returned to its factory default settings.
[ This message was edited by: malcolmct on 2001-11-29 02:26 ]
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tew
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Posted: 2001-11-29 15:26
This seems right to me. I tried last night to re-format the data partition as FAT32, and though iTunes would recognize and transfer files to it, the iPod wouldn't save settings or recognize any of the music. I guess we're stuck with HFS+, which is bad news for us Linux users, who still don't have a way to write to HFS+ filesystems.
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Posted: 2001-12-01 15:21
Same here, I tried all those formats and some others - However, I can not copy songs to it under itunes when its a HFS. It gets an error after a few songs.
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