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I gifted an iPod this christmas and wanted to be a nice guy and filled it with the recipient's requests for music. These were either from my own Amazon DRM-free library or iTunes store bought specifically for this iPod.

Although registered to recipient we now cannot change "linked" computer without deleting entire contents and doing a reset.

How do we backup first? This recipient has Windows and I did everything as Windows (Mac running Parallels and XP).

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ænon1mus
2010-03-10 23:24:00
Ronald, did that solve your problem?
Aibek
2010-03-02 03:13:00
There is a detailed step-by-step tutorial about that on Apple's website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329When it comes to easy iPod backup method, we recommend CopyTrans.