Hello Neo. I noticed you had some advice for another ipod user and I was hoping you could help me out too. I bought a mini-ipod a month ago and still cannot get my Dell Inspiron 1100 to recognize it. I've gone to the Apple store, and nothing is wrong with the ipod. I have a usb port and even bought a firewire 1394 card. The 1394, from TechGear, did not include any installation software. My computer still does not recognize the ipod. Someone told me that I needed a patch for my Dell computer. I tried my Windows XP installation disk to see if the Add Hardware option would pick up any needed driver software, but to no avail. If you have any advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,

Daniel Diaz

Go to this link and download the lastest iPod Updater Software. This has updates for your iPod's firmware and I beleave it also has Windows updates in it. I know that before I justed the newest Updater software I had a client with a 40GB iPod that would not recognize in Windows. And after downloading and updating with this it worked great even got access to it in My Computer. Just like it was an external Harddrive, (which it actually is an external Harddrive anyway), and could drag and drop MP3's and other music to and from it.

http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/

I would try that and see what it does for you and as always, let me know what happens so I can have that to add to my knowledge of known fixes.

Good Luck,

Neo Kinkade