For those with Ipods that cannot get it to work properly because of using the normal white usb cable, i had the same problem, and as some of you were saying, an option would be formatting it to be a normal hard drive (loosing Ipod functionality)
Well, you can keep it, if you use a software (freeware) called rockbox.
It allows you to copy your music "the old fashion way", as if it were a normal usb drive, and then it will read the data from the internal disk (replaces the Ipod front end)
So you can keep both things, it being a mp4 player, and a hard drive (like de branding it)
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