Resolving iPod Error – No iPod Connected

Resolving iPod Error – No iPod Connected

By Mary J. Nolasco 2 years ago

iPod is the popular portable digital media player that comes combined with a drive from Apple computer. To connect an iPod to your Windows or Mac computer, you need a FireWire or USB port. iPods are popularly known for their user-friendliness. But disk structure issues are not an exception with them. When it occurs, your system might fail to recognize the iPod and report it as not connected. To solve such problems, you will need to restore your iPod and use your recent data backup to retrieve the lost data. If due to any issues, your data backup fails to offer complete results, you should use commercial iPod Recovery tools.

For an instance, when you click your iPod under Preferences option of iTunes, you fail to access it with the similar error message:

“No ipod connected”

You cannot access any of the files or folders that is stored on your iPod.

Cause

Possible reasons for the above error to occur are:

Improperly connected or bad cables

Faulty USB or FireWire port

iTunes issues

Disk structure corruption issues

Solution

You need to try resolving the above behavior by following these steps:

Make sure that all the cables connected to both your system and iPod are properly attached. Detach and attach them again. Also, ensure that these cables are healthy.

Try using a different USB or FireWire port. If it solves the existing issue, replace the damaged one.

Sometimes, the iTunes software or operating system might introduce such behaviors temporarily. So, you can try resolving the problem by detaching your iPod and restarting the system.

Try updating your iTunes software with the latest version available

If all the above measures fail, restore your iPod. Since the process deletes all the data, you should restore the lost files and folders from backup.

If you restore the iPod while no clean and valid backup is available, use iPod Recovery applications. These are powerful iPod Data Recovery utilities that use safe scanning algorithms to examine and restore the lost data from logically crashed iPods.

Phoenix iPod Recovery is a fully-competent data recovery tool that recovers lost data from iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Mini and iPod Classic. It is a safe tool that recovers all lost music files, videos, documents, graphics, podcasts, audio books and other contents from iPods. This iPod Recovery tools is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems.