It was clear that iTunes wasn’t going to restore this iPod through its normal means. So, I knew something was wrong when it wasn’t making any progress. I found that restore should complete in only a few minutes (less actually). So, I began searching for how long an iPod restore should take. Although, I suspected abnormal after 3 minutes without any changes. I wasn’t sure if this progress panel was normal or abnormal. Basically, iTunes opens a progress bar that keeps moving without any progress. When I cancelled that panel and I tried the restore again, I got a different issue.
However, that was just the beginning of the problems. I realized the above mentioned Windows disk format panel had the iPod open and the 1436 error was due to this. Such stupid issues that cause such time wasting problems. So, this is simply a problem that exists because this iPod was originally formatted on a Mac. However, Windows formatted iPods can be used on both Windows and Macs. Note, Macintosh formatted iPods cannot be used with Windows. I take that back, this help page wasn’t helpful at all. Second, when I tried to restore the iPod, iTunes kept showing me error 1436, which is a rather non-descript error that takes you to a mostly generic Apple help page that is only moderately helpful. This format panel stays open until cancelled. First, Windows recognized it as drive O: and opened a requester wanting to format the iPod. Several things happened after I plugged it in. When I got home and plugged it into iTunes for Windows 7, iTunes recognized it as a Macintosh formatted iPod and said that it needed to be restored. I recently picked up a sixth generation iPod nano refurbished from Gamestop.
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