This is what you need to do with your own iPod Nano because it’s not that it’s paired to another computer that’s the problem (though that is a problem) but that it’s paired to another computer and that computer was running a different OS to you. No fear, though, once you get past the warning windows that are going to pop up fast and furious when you plug it into your Dell Win7 PC, it’s not too bad a process. Again, though, a warning: this process deletes everything on the iPod. If you want to save stuff, you’ll need to enlist your brother’s help (or just ask him to email you the songs you really like). When you first plug in the iPod Nano to your Windows 7 laptop, Windows itself will detect a device that isn’t formatted for its OS and complain: This you can safely ignore. Click on “Cancel”. What you want is for iTunes to reformat the device, not Windows.

This might help someone, so here's exactly what I had to do: I got my brother's old iPod Classic, which was Mac formatted with just over 1000 songs. Microsoft office for mac activation code. Macdrive read it flawlessly, except that I had to keep iTunes from coming up - if it did, Macdrive 'lost' sight of the iPod. Then I had to move all the files into My Music - they came over in subfolders & iTunes didn't want to go down to them. Then I had a final problem because he'd bought some of the music from the iTunes store. The solution there was that he'd only used 2 of the 5 computer limit that Apple imposes.

Remo Recover (Windows / Mac) is the advanced iPod recovery software. It is equipped with enhanced algorithms, to scan and restore your iPod files after formatting. Best photo viewer for mac ox. This software can also be used on FAT16, NTFS5 and HFSX etc. Formatted partitions or Volumes. Best Way to Transfer Music from Mac Formatted iPod to Windows PC While switching from Mac to windows pc transferring iPod data to new computer is really a very big and challenging job for the users, because you need to restore iPod on windows before start using on windows. Oct 14, 2011  The iPod HD will have to be formatted to enable the PC to read it. Unfortunately, the while the Mac can read both Mac and PC formats, the PC can only read the PC format. I just bought a Mac and previously owned a Windows XP PC. The music, pictures, calendar and address book on the iPod classic I used on that PC all sync fine on the mac, but iTunes says that it can't install updates to the iPod Classic because it's not formatted for mac.

Well, it was 'below' when I posted it.:) There are two separate problems here -- 1) His PC can't even recognize the filesystem on the iPod because it's formatted for Mac (HFS+). I mentioned one commercial driver (MacDrive), Wikipedia. 2) You can't copy music off an iPod without using a third-party program, such as the iPod Rip program you mentioned. It's probably worth pointing out that Apple has a that says you can't use a Mac-formatted iPod under Windows at all, so in order to get iTunes to recognize it you will probably need to follow their instructions to 'Restore iPod to factory settings' (after you copy all the music off). After you do that, you can use iTunes to copy the songs you want back on to it. I wrote thelittleappfactory on this and here's their reply: Unfortunately, due to Windows limitations, it is not possible to import music from a Mac formatted iPod to a PC.