subject: How To Use Your Mac Formatted Ipod In Windows [print this page] Each of us is familiar with portable media players. Of all the ones available in the market, the iPod has stolen the limelight. iPods are hard drives which have been fitted with a screen and specialized software. One needs to connect it to a system (computer) to be able to load, transfer or edit information stored thereon. Two of the most popularly used OS are the Mac and Windows. When an iPod is formated like any other hard drive, it too adjusts its compatibility to the system it is to be used on. One therefore needs to keep formatting and re-formatting the iPod while switching from Mac to Windows etc. During this process, one loses all the data stored on the iPod. To restore it back one can use an iPod data recovery software.
An example of the above problem would be when a person using and iPod on a Windows machine has just bought a Mac machine and wants to use the iPod there. Or vice versa.
Another situation could be when a person has both a Windows and a Mac system and wants the iPod compatible with both.
In either case once the re-formatting is done the user finds all his music, video etc files deleted from the iPod.
Cause:
The main cause of this sort of a problem is that formatting is basically enabling the new hardware to interact with the computer. Re-formatting any hard-drive causes it to be compatible with the new machine. In case of an iPod, all the data gets erased while re-formatting it.
Solution:
For Windows formatted iPods one need not worry, as Macs are compatible with both Windows as well as Mac formatted iPods. However if one has a Mac formatted iPod, then transferring to Windows would require that the iPod be re-formatted. When an iPod gets re-formatted one needs to re-load all the songs back onto it. If a backup of the iPod is available one needs only to restore/reload it.. In case there is no backup or it is not available/accessible, one could use an iPod recovery software and safely recover iPod data. You simply need to connect the iPod to the computer and run the software which will the recover all lost data.
Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is an easy-to-use, but highly efficient software for recovering iPod data. The software supports various file systemsMIDI, GIF, MP3, WAV, MPEG, MP4, etc. The software has a simple user friendly GUI and is available for both Mac as well as Windows systems.
