I recently bought a 60GB iPod Photo. I can't seem to upload music, files or
anything else to the darn thing. Long story short, Windows recognizes the
iPod as an external (removable disk) drive on E:. I took all the proprietary
software out of the picture and tried just copying files directly to the
iPod drive. Small files (< 100KB) copy fine, but with anything really large,
it either takes forever or returns an error: "Cannot copy [file]: The
request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."

I'm running Windows XP SP2, and I have 512 MB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive
(about 1/4 full). I'm using USB 2.0 to connect the iPod. My USB printer and
digital camera both work fine. Here's what I've tried so far:
1. Downloaded/installed latest USB drivers
2. Downloaded/installed latest VIA (4in1) drivers
3. Changed iPod from E: drive to I: drive
4. Connected using both USB connections
5. Ran Scandisk on the iPod drive (no errors)

(My anti-virus software has been disabled through all of this.)

I downloaded the latest Apple software and did a full restore on the iPod
itself. After numerous tries, I did get ONE song uploaded to the thing, and
it seems to work and play just fine. So I'm not convinced it's the appliance
(yet).

What I haven't tried is reinstalling Windows (maybe tonight) or hooking the
iPod up to a different PC (tomorrow on my laptop at work).

In the meantime, does anyone have any inspirational thoughts for me? Thanks!

You may need to open xps firewall,exceptions,add,add the hardware.

"Brian" wrote:

> I recently bought a 60GB iPod Photo. I can't seem to upload music, files or
> anything else to the darn thing. Long story short, Windows recognizes the
> iPod as an external (removable disk) drive on E:. I took all the proprietary
> software out of the picture and tried just copying files directly to the
> iPod drive. Small files (< 100KB) copy fine, but with anything really large,
> it either takes forever or returns an error: "Cannot copy [file]: The
> request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
>
> I'm running Windows XP SP2, and I have 512 MB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive
> (about 1/4 full). I'm using USB 2.0 to connect the iPod. My USB printer and
> digital camera both work fine. Here's what I've tried so far:
> 1. Downloaded/installed latest USB drivers
> 2. Downloaded/installed latest VIA (4in1) drivers
> 3. Changed iPod from E: drive to I: drive
> 4. Connected using both USB connections
> 5. Ran Scandisk on the iPod drive (no errors)
>
> (My anti-virus software has been disabled through all of this.)
>
> I downloaded the latest Apple software and did a full restore on the iPod
> itself. After numerous tries, I did get ONE song uploaded to the thing, and
> it seems to work and play just fine. So I'm not convinced it's the appliance
> (yet).
>
> What I haven't tried is reinstalling Windows (maybe tonight) or hooking the
> iPod up to a different PC (tomorrow on my laptop at work).
>
> In the meantime, does anyone have any inspirational thoughts for me? Thanks!
>
>
>