[rainydaygirl]

Hi ^^

Right, so, I had to get a new external hard drive cause my last one died on me (sad times) and my new one arrived today (good times!) - it's a LaCie, 500G, and it works brilliantly...unless my iPod is connect to my computer at the same time.

My darling laptop is a Thinkpad T60, running a dual Centrino processor. It seems that my iPod is generating a hardware conflict with the LaCie drive, causing the LaCie to cease and not be properly recognised (if it does come up, it's as a sort of shadow drive; I can't see the information on there and it says it has a capacity of 0.)

Other than just not have them connected at the same time, any advice?

Thanks!

[r3drock3t88]

Maybe you can try renaming the name of either the ipod or the harddrive. I don't mean just right clicking it and clicking "rename"... I mean rename the actual drive letter.

I forget exactly how this is done, I have only done it once when I had conflict problems but it solved my problems awhile ago. I changed my flash drive to drive "Z" ... I'm sure a quick google search could give you plenty of responses.

Good luck!

[rainydaygirl]

I tried renaming the iPod drive to the Z drive but unfortunately it didn't help! Thank you anyway, though