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Begin at the beginning.

I plugged in my ipod to get some new podcasts.
Itunes informs me there’s a software update for my ipod.
Update downloaded.
Whoops! I can’t use my ipod with itunes until I download a new version of itunes.
New version of itunes downloaded.
Whoops again! When I try to install new itunes, I can’t, because I don’t have Service Pack 2 for Windows XP.
Try to get SP2.
Can’t because my version of Windows isn’t validated and I’m clearly evil and Microsoft hates me.

Upshot, am now stuck with an iPod I can’t do anything with, and a real desire to beat Bill Gates and Steve Jobs with a big stick with a nail in it.

HELP!

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anonyme changed the tags on this post: they were "microsoft, Steve Jobs, iPod, bill gates, Microsoft Windows, itunes, evil, Computer software, service, Stephen, iPod downgrade" 3 months, 3 weeks ago.

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fletcher offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 78 #
AU | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (18 hours, 40 minutes after post)

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp…

Go there and click on the download link?

I don’t understand what you mean by your version of windows isn’t validated, and how it stops you..?..

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anonyme offline Verified User (11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 3 weeks ago (23 hours, 48 minutes after post)

My computer died last year, and a friend fixed it, and it’s possibly not an official copy of Windows.
Apparently SP2 is the reason my computer died (and I lost everything), so do you have any tips on downgrading the iPod’s firmware?

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matthew.kaih offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (2 months, 1 week after post)

I’m having the same problem and cant fix it too
Dont microsoft get enough money they now go so low as to killing computers and making people waszte $230 to fix it

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