madboy33 Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Hi allThis is a tale of an ipodmini and windows 98My best mates teenage daughter saved her pennies for an ipodmini http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodmini/ . It was ordered on line and engraved with her name in it (which is free of charge).It arrived from apple as planned, she plugged it in to her computer only to find that she can not use it as it will only work with windows XP or 2000.Now here is your Quest guys. Can she use it on her Windows 98 system, is there a workaround? My friend can not afford to upgrade the PC which is an ageing windows 98 with 96mb ram and a 4gb hard drive. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 While I cannot verify its integrity, here is a Win98/se driver for iPod.Also - there's this:If your iPod was never used before you can get "Drive not formatted" message. Don't try formatting iPod with Windows tools! To format iPod correctly you have to use Apple iPod Updater software. This software works only under Windows 2000 or Windows XP.So you'll have to find some Windows 2000/XP machine, install software from CD you got with your iPod (or download it from here) and Update (or Restore) your iPod.After that you can uninstall software and enjoy iPod under Windows 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted March 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Many thankswil try that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 scuzzmanmany thankswe have 1 happy teenagerthansk again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 I very glad it worked!Tell her to enjoy her iPod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 I just ordered one for my wife as i was so impressed with itwill see how it goes and the problemsWatch this space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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