Difference between revisions of "EmCORE Installation/iPodClassic/DFUiTunes"

Revision as of 18:48, 29 March 2011

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Make sure iTunes is closed
Kill "AppleMobileDeviceService.exe" using the task manager
- Open the task manager (press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC)
- Click on the "Processes" tab
- Choose "AppleMobileDeviceService.exe"
- Press the "End Process" button
- Press "End Process" to confirm
Connect your iPod to your computer
Make sure the hold switch is not locked
Press and hold the menu and select buttons for between 10 and 15 seconds (The iPod will show an apple logo after about 5 seconds, keep holding the buttons until it seems to turn off completely)

The display of your iPod should now stay black, and a new USB device called "Apple Recovery (DFU) USB Driver" should connect to your PC.

Your iPod should now turn on and connect a 64MB drive called "UMSboot". If it doesn't, please ask for support.

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-* Download [http://files.freemyipod.org/misc/winusb_driver.zip this] file and extract it somewhere
+* Download [http://files.freemyipod.org/misc/bootstrap_ipodclassic_itunes.exe this] file
-* Download [http://files.freemyipod.org/misc/bootstrap_ipodclassic.exe this] file as well
 * Make sure iTunes is closed
 * Kill "AppleMobileDeviceService.exe" using the task manager
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 * Wait for the driver installation to complete
-* Open the device manager
+* Run bootstrap_ipodclassic_itunes.exe
-* Find the "Apple Recovery (DFU) USB Driver" device (Should be in the "USB controllers" category)
-* Do a right click on it and choose "Update driver"
-* Always choose the bottom-most option (don't search on windows update, choose everything manually) until you get to the list of available drivers
-* Choose "All device types" and click "Next"
-* Click "Have disk"
-* Click "Browse"
-* Navigate to the folder where you extracted the winusb_driver.zip file, and choose the "winusb.inf" file from it
-* Click "Open"
-* Click "OK"
-* Click "Next"
-* Wait for the driver installation to complete
-* Run bootstrap_ipodclassic.exe
 Your iPod should now turn on and connect a 64MB drive called "UMSboot". If it doesn't, please ask for [[Contact|support]].
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