OMGipodhelp - emergency!

Nope your iTunes won't be erased, just your iPod. After you hit, restore unplug it, close itunes, open iTunes back up, plug iPod back in, wait until iTunes recognizes the device and hit Sync. It'll take forever for all your songs to get back on there but it should be fine.

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I don't know if this is just the newer models, but when I had to restore my iTouch, it asked me if I wanted to restore using the most recent backed up version. So I didn't even lose the data in my applications (high scores and stuff like that).

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mine's a new-ish model... it's the ipod nano, the one that came out right before the one that takes videos came out, not sure what generation it is... it's the long skinny one with the big screen.

it's actually a good time for it to start malfunctioning.... i've had it for 10 months. if it decides to go dead on me, it's still under warenty!

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I got this error before when I plugged in a flash drive that stole the drive letter previously used by my iPod. When I plugged in my iPod and started iTunes, I got the error. I went into Disk Management and changed the drive letter on my iPod to what it used to be, after changing the drive letter on my flash drive to an unused letter (Z or something far up). Then voila, iTunes had no problem reading my iPod.

I've had my iPod mini for over four years now and I've never needed to factory-restore it.

Are you having the same problem?

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