Brothers iPod screwed up with vistas "Scan and Fix" option

[jashan17]

Ok, my brother isnt very computer literate (in grade 12) and when he connected his iPod to the vista computer it said "do you want to scan and fix the ipod" and he selected yes. Now it is not being read as a volume on explorer but it is being detected. It isnt working in iTunes either.

 

[Kage]

He fixed it then

... Sorry, hmm...

I don't know. I've never had that happen to me while scanning a standard MP3 player, my Creative for instance.
I wouldn't have thought it does anything to the drive at all, except scan.

It could have removed files though from the device, but I wouldn't have thought that Microsoft's scanner would have found tempory files from Apple's.

Has Vista by any chance got a backup of what it deletes on the program so you can restore it back?

 

[jashan17]

He fixed it then

... Sorry, hmm...

I don't know. I've never had that happen to me while scanning a standard MP3 player, my Creative for instance.
I wouldn't have thought it does anything to the drive at all, except scan.

It could have removed files though from the device, but I wouldn't have thought that Microsoft's scanner would have found tempory files from Apple's.

Has Vista by any chance got a backup of what it deletes on the program so you can restore it back?

im not sure. All i know is that i cannot restore it now and its not being read.

 

[Atomic Rooster]

This may help you: Restoring iPod to factory settings. There are some useful links at the bottom of the page too.


You could also try the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It should be able to reformat the iPod so that you can restore it using the iTunes software.