I installed a new version of iTunes 7 (7.1.1.5) and plugged my iPod in to sync it with my PC – so I could get the latest music I’d listened to into iSproggler and then into Last.FM

iTunes said the iPod I had just connected was in recovery mode and had to be restored. This meant I’d have to reset it to factory settings and so lose all my music (about 3000 songs). The iPod is working fine however, so the “error” looks bogus.

I searched round on the net and found other people had had the same problem back in September last year with iTunes 7. A popular fix (which worked for me) involves remapping network drives.

For whatever reason, iTunes was trying to map my iPod to driver letter G:. I had recently (since I last synced my iPod) mapped that letter to a network drive and iTunes spat the dummy.

The solution: Just re-map that network drive to W: and reconnect my iPod.

It’s worrying that iTunes reports such a drastic error message. I could have followed the instructions, reset my iPod and reloaded all my music (which would probably have taken me overnight), then I wouldn’t be surprised if the same error got displayed a second time.