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mohamdawg

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360 With A Ntfs Formated Ipod Classic
« on: June 30, 2009, 06:38:00 PM »

If want to make it work as a USB drive for your xbox 360 then you can't use it as a normal ipod and listen to music. What you do is:

1. Connect your iPod to your computer, open iTunes and select your iPod.
2. UNCHECK "Open iTunes when iPod is connected" and make sure "Enable Disk Use" is selected. The reason we do this is because each time iTunes sees your iPod, it undoes the changes we make to it.
3. Close iTunes and use Task Manager to make sure iTunes is not running at all. You only need to make sure iTunes.exe is not running; other Apple processes such as AppleMobileDeviceService.exe are fine.
4. Open up Windows Explorer/My Computer and go into whichever disk is your iPod and rename iTunes_Control folder to something else. Or you can delete it, but if you do you'll have to restore your ipod to make it usable as an mp3 player again.

Now you're good to go. Drag and drop whatever media files you want into your ipod in Windows Explorer, NOT iTunes. Make sure iTunes is not running when your iPod is connected to your PC. It will create a new iTunes_Control folder and then you have to delete/rename it again. If the xbox360 sees that folder, it recognizes it as an ipod and doesn't work with it. When it doesn't see that folder, it just sees a portable hard drive. Also, the songs and videos you already have on your iPod are still there but you'll have a hard time telling which file is which because iTunes renames everything when it loads them to your iPod.

To make your iPod an mp3 player again, rename the folder back to iTunes_Control.
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