I got my boyfriend an ipod mini as a gift. He set it up initially on a mac laptop. Now he has a pc laptop (he switched jobs, and always has whatever is the standard for that office…

...obviously I am new. If this question is already asked to death, please just point me in the right direction. Thank you.

I would have thought you'd just have to reformat it using the ipod software: http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ Or perhaps reformat it using Windows and then do the ipod softwar…

Unless there's something special about the mini (and I don't think there is) you just install iTunes and the iPod software on the PC and plug in the iPod. It should walk you throug…

Thanks for the help thus far. We are going to try again tonight. However, I am wondering: Will he lose anything that is currently on the ipod? He has it 2/3 full of songs, and wa…

Yes you will lose everything on the iPod, and I myself can't point you to the software but I'm sure there are ways of pulling off the existing songs to be later reinstalled.

First, thank you. I did a search of the forum, and a google search to find some shareware or software to purchase in order to copy the music library to our new pc laptop (as a rem…

I'm not sure that you can extract the music when going from Mac to PC, because the Mac uses a different disk format than the PC. It might be best to see if you could borrow a Mac j…

The ipod can be used with a windows machine. I used a shareware program which I forgot the name which allows you to read a mac formatted drive in windows xp. Then I used a free uti…

Thank you very much jaydon34, and I think I have a plan now. In the meantime, I got an email from a software company that has a product called CopyPod, which must be purchased. I…

Before trying to use any iPod on a PC, you must install the driver that comes with the iTunes disc. You can also download it from Apple if you don't have an iTunes disc handy. It…

All, I have just bought a new HD for my 12" PowerBook (1.0 GHz) as the one I have is full. Since I will be doing a clean install on the new drive anyway, this seems like a good ti…

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