You need to click on the “Restore” button here. Now, where were we? Oh yes, restoring the iPod. I click on “Download iTunes” and Windows 7 jumps in to confirm that I want to allow iTunes to update itself:Ĭhoose “Yes” and iTunes downloads the update and restarts itself. Slight sidetrack, but it’s important to stay current with iTunes, particularly if we’re restoring (e.g., deleting all the data and reformatting) an iPod. Okay, that’s what we’re trying to accomplish! Click “OK” and it’s quite possible you’ll see that your version of iTunes is out of date… This dialog box you want to answer by clicking on “OK”, which will cause iTunes to have a closer look at the iPod and realize that… Now start iTunes and it too will have a warning message: Speaking of which, I trust you have the latest copy of iTunes installed on your PC? If not, then grab a copy here: download iTunes. What you want is for iTunes to reformat the device, not Windows. 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: 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). 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.Īgain, though, a warning: this process deletes everything on the iPod. 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. And that means that, yup, there are Mac-friendly iPods and there are PC-friendly iPods, depending on how they were configured when first setup.įortunately, if you’re willing to wipe it clean of all data, this process can be reversed and a PC-formatted iPod can become a Mac-friendly one and vice versa. Though it may not seem like it, your iPod has a hard disk inside of it, which means that it has to be formatted so that the appropriate computer operating system can read it and understand what’s on the drive.
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