Microsoft Windows XP Computer Cannot Detect iPod

The Apple iPod is a revolutionary portable media player, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is available in different versions, which are actually known as generations. You can store photos, songs, videos, and podcasts on iPod disk.

You can synchronize your iPod to your Windows or Mac OS X computer and transfer files to iPod disk using iTunes application. The synchronization takes place automatically when you connect the device to your computer.

However, in some situations, your computer may not recognize the iPod and access data from it. The problem may be due to faulty iPod or iTunes. This behavior may lead to significant data loss, if there is no good backup available. At this point, iPod Recovery Software come for your help to extract data from iPod disk.

As a practical example of this problem, when you connect your iPod to Microsoft Windows XP operating system-based computer, it is not detected. If you scan for the hardware devices, no result is displayed. Your iPod cannot be seen even in 'My Computer' folder. Furthermore, the iPod cannot be seen in the iTunes application.

Cause:

You may come across this problem, due to any of the below reasons:

• Some of your Microsoft Windows Registry files are either incorrect or damaged.
• The iTunes application is damaged by virus infection or some of the critical system files of iTunes installation are missing.
• Significant data structures of iPod are missing or the entire iPod disk is logically damaged.

Resolution:

In order to sort out this problem and perform iPod Recovery, use any of the below methods:

• Replace damaged Windows registry with new one or restore the registry from the backup.
• Uninstall and then reinstall iTunes application. You can download latest version of iTunes from Apple's website.
• Restore iPod to fix damaged data structure problems. Restore is like formatting a computer hard drive, which actually removes everything from the iPod disk and makes it completely clean.

After formatting, you lose all your multimedia files from iPod disk and face serious data loss. This is the situation where need of iPod Data Recovery arises.

Recovery is best possible using advanced and efficient iPod Recovery Software. The applications employ powerful scanning algorithms to scan the affected iPod disk and extract all lost, missing, deleted, and inaccessible files from it.

iPod Recovery software successfully recovers lost images, songs, videos, podcasts, graphic files, and other multimedia files from iPod. It works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000. The software recovers data from iPod Shuffle and iPod Classic.