confused about iPod classic

[bazookaman]

I have an iPod classic. I reformatted it in disk utility and set it up in iTunes. I synced it with my entire music library with no problem. In iTunes, all my music APPEARS to be there. In the Finder, there is only 500mb or so free on the 120gb iPod. So something is there.

But when I disconnected, the iPod pops up with the initial "Select your language" screen and after hitting English, I find that there is no music. No songs. No artists No nothing. But I plug it back into iTunes and everything is there.

[deckeda]

Try restoring or whatever completely in iTunes only. Then disconnect or do the language thing and verify everything looks correct sans music. Then re-add music and check.

[The Grim Ninja]

Also: Try restarting your iPod.

[Forrest]

I think the problem is you used Disk Utility to format the drive. By doing so, you've turned your iPod into a portable hard drive.

I believe the solution is to connect the iPod to your computer, run iTunes and choose restore your iPod to factory settings. This will wipe the hard drive, and they you can restore the songs from a backup from within iTunes.

[bazookaman]

Weird. It's been so long since I've done this. In the olden days, i always formatted my iPods with disk utility and iTunes just KNEW what to do with it.

[Black]

I had this happen with a Nano not too long ago (filled it up, took it on a trip and found it empty.) All it took to get it right was to plug it in and sync again, been fine since.

[bazookaman]

I synced it several times*. No dice. Now I've restored it and am copying everything back to it. We'll see what happens.

* And it synced. It showed up as having all the music on it. Just not ON it I guess.

[RAMd®d]

It was just in an out of phase parallel universe.

[deckeda]

Keep in mind that iTunes handles any necessary formatting and firmware installation, making any use of Disk Utility redundant at best.

[bazookaman]

deckeda wrote:
Keep in mind that iTunes handles any necessary formatting and firmware installation, making any use of Disk Utility redundant at best.

Perhaps. But I was never able to get that to work changing a Windows formatted iPod to a Mac formatted one. At least back then. Maybe that just "works" now. So after that, I just made it a point to reformat first. Then iTunes would make it an iPod. I guess that's changed. I restored it and it worked fine.