![]() ![]() Once you’ve entered This PC, double click on a drive titled “iPod” to enter. Now click it, hit Apply and close the window.įind the “This PC” (or “Computer,” or “My Computer” on pre-Windows 10 versions). Find (you can search the Control Panel) File Explorer Options and once you’re there, select the View tab and scroll down until you see the “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option. Go to Start, type Control Panel, and enter Control Panel. Before proceeding to the other steps, make sure to open iTunes and uncheck “Enable disk use.” If you’ve been using iTunes to transfer music to your iPod, you might’ve enabled disk use. Once installed, a notification will pop up in the bottom right corner. Your computer will automatically install a driver for your Apple device. One end of the cable goes to your iPod and the other to one of the free USB ports on your PC. Plug it InĪs you might have guessed, the first step would be to plug your iPod into your PC. first then Windows will recognise it as a portable HD.Fortunately, you won’t need any extra items to add music to your iPod without iTunes, unless you need to transfer the music from somewhere else to your PC first.Īll it takes is a one-off session of tweaking. If you want to use the iPod in Windows as an external hd, you have to set it in Disk Mode. (HERE there maybe some problem, if your iPod hardisk is not in tiptop condition)Ĭonnect it to your Mac and sync iTunes library. ITunes will pop a windows asking you to reformat it in FAT32 and RestoreĬlick ok. Install the Latest iTunes in your windows PC, run itunes and check that all is in order (you can navigate, play some sample songs in itunes.)Ĭonnect your iPod to the Windows PC, USB 2.0 port (please dont use USB hub with iPod Classic, -my bad personal experience, freezing itunes and windows) Yes, formatting it in FAT32, using iTunes, will erase all music and data in your iPod, but that is no problem if you have all the music in your Mac iTunes library. To use the iPod Classic on both the Mac and Windows PC, you need to format it in FAT32 filesystem structure, which both OS can recognise. ![]()
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