My iPod touch is disabled.

Just connect it to the computer it was set up on and tell it to restore. That should fix it. Check out this Apple support page.

"connect your iPod to iTunes

hold down the power and home button for 10 seconds

let go of the power button and keep holding the home button for 8 seconds

this will put your iPod in DFU mode? and then iTunes will say the iPod needs to be restored to be used with iTunes

and click restore"

"This has happened to my daughter's iPod Touch. Wish I'd taken a photo of the screen... disabled for 20+ million minutes. Hah.

Anyway, the answer to this question is all over the Internet tubes.

As Mactech+ says, hooking it back to iTunes and downloading an update will fix it. I don't think it has anything to do with being stolen or messing with the password, and if a guy can't get his answer on iFixit, what's the world coming to?

In this case, the iPod was left aside for a few weeks and it discharged almost completely, though I don't know if that's what triggered it. At this point, I'm suspicious of the crappy no-brand little speaker-dock thing she used to try to bring it back from near-death.

In any case, STILL you need the password to get in. IF Chris was a crook, he'd be locked out anyway.

(Would a crook come to iFixit? iFixit attracts only the BEST people. I suspect all the criminals are over at iHow.)"

"I lost my ipod a while ago, but I did get it back though....and when i did, it said ""Ipod disabled Connect to Itunes"" Well, the computer I had it first synced with in itunes is some what fried, so I don't have Itunes or a computer right now.

But the good news is:

1-Fully Charge Your Ipod Battery.

2-Completely Let Your Ipod Battery Die.

3-Plug Your Ipod Back into Charger, and there you go. It should now be unlocked and able to get to the Passcode screen.

I have an wall outlet charger, Im not sure if that makes any difference but that's what WORKED for me. Hope this helps you and anyone else who gets the annoying red disabled screen =D"

I believe this is an error caused by letting the battery drain completely. I replaced the digitizer on an iPhone, however it had set for about three weeks before the repair, causing the battery to completely drain. When I finished the repair and charged it, it showed me a 5 million minute unlock time. Since this is very similar to Bill's case above, it seems to me that it's likely related to draining the battery.

"the 21 million minute solution for me involved:

Plug iPod into it's companion Mac and it went from 21,000,000 to 1 instantly.

Home screen came on and that was that.

No sync. No update. Just eject and go to town."