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Q: Corrupt iPod classic

My sister has corrupted her ipod classic by using the windows explorer eject route in vista  rather than the eject button in iTunes. the PC no longer recognizes the iPod  as a disc  any ideas guys n gals ?

 

Ive tried a resst to no avail

 

I also tried putting into disc mode again un responsive!

 

can it be recovered ?

 

thanks

iPod classic

Posted on May 9, 2013 12:18 PM

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  • by Kneeboforethee,

    Kneeboforethee Kneeboforethee Nov 4, 2015 4:54 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Nov 4, 2015 4:54 PM in response to turingtest2

    Hello I just purchased a used 160gb 6gen and cant restore the Ipod the test results are

    Retracts: 23

    Reallocs: 302

    Pending Sectors: 9

    PowerOn Hours: 54

    Start/Stops: 198

    Temp: Current 29c

    Temp: Min 14c

    Temp: Max 53c

    I've tried everything I came across with no prevail the only thing that changed was when I tried a DFU restore my Itunes unfroze and  my ipod when disconnected from usb says connect to itunes to restore but itunes keeps freezing and my computer doesn't recognize the device it never shows up in my pc and at one time I saw Itunes says that a Ipod is in recovery mode but when I reconnect my Ipod it freezes Itunes again thanks for any help =D

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Nov 4, 2015 5:40 PM in response to Kneeboforethee
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    Nov 4, 2015 5:40 PM in response to Kneeboforethee

    The stats suggest things are possibly not too bad. Make sure you have a known good cable. If you have Windows ask a Mac owning friend to restore it for you, or vice versa, or try reformatting it.

     

    tt2

  • by Kneeboforethee,

    Kneeboforethee Kneeboforethee Nov 4, 2015 7:02 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Nov 4, 2015 7:02 PM in response to turingtest2

    Hm dont think I have any friends that have a Mac I tried with a different cable with no prevail all that happens is Itunes freezes the Ipod is plugged in and sometimes when I use the DFU restore Itunes says that theres a Ipod that is in restore mode to reconnect and when I do Itunes freezes and the Ipod just keeps saying don't disconnect but nothing happens I tried just about every step that was suggested at the beginning of the forum but I cant do this step.

    Reformat Drive

     

    If all else fails try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from restoring it properly.

    I tried to do this step on three different computers two of which I saw the device under devices but it wasn't near the C: drive it was i think the F: drive a few times I was able to get to format the device but it wouldn't be able to format kept saying unable to format the device. Thanks so much for your help =)

  • by Bundy439,

    Bundy439 Bundy439 Nov 30, 2015 9:08 PM in response to massroadtrip
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    Nov 30, 2015 9:08 PM in response to massroadtrip

    I've tried everything as suggested, but I still cannot get it to reboot and/or re-load itunes program.  It's stuck in Disk Mode too.  I even tried reformatting it on my windows 10 pc using disk format but when I go into to windows explorer and click on the drive, the pc locks up.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Dec 1, 2015 2:34 AM in response to Bundy439
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    Dec 1, 2015 2:34 AM in response to Bundy439

    What are the stats? See the first page of this thread for the method to access them. Re: Corrupt iPod classic.

     

    tt2

  • by Bundy439,

    Bundy439 Bundy439 Dec 1, 2015 8:13 AM in response to massroadtrip
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    Dec 1, 2015 8:13 AM in response to massroadtrip

    I've tried everything as suggested, but I still cannot get it to reboot and/or re-load itunes program.  It's stuck in Disk Mode too.  I even tried reformatting it on my windows 10 pc using disk format but when I go into to windows explorer and click on the drive, the pc locks upl

  • by Bundy439,

    Bundy439 Bundy439 Dec 1, 2015 8:16 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Dec 1, 2015 8:16 AM in response to turingtest2

    Retracts: 81

    Reallocs: 244

    Pending Sectors: 28

    Power on Hours:21450

    Starts/Stops: 396

    Temp: Current 22c

    Tem: min 19c

    Temp: max 50c

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Dec 1, 2015 8:36 AM in response to Bundy439
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    Dec 1, 2015 8:36 AM in response to Bundy439

    Those numbers don't look too bad, but you probably need to reformat the drive in order to release the pending sectors. You could try manually deleting all files and folders (including hidden ones) via Windows/File Explorer, you could try a quick format, (but it seems you've tried that and failed) or you could try getting a Mac owning friend to restore it for you, and then restore it again on your computer. Windows and OS X put different file systems on the device and this approach often succeeds when others don't.

     

    tt2

  • by htcannon,

    htcannon htcannon Dec 29, 2015 8:22 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Dec 29, 2015 8:22 AM in response to turingtest2

    Turingtest2, you are THE MAN!  Your excellent post of step-by-step determination led to rapid resolution of my problem.  In my case, after the disk checked out fine, 0 retracts and 0 reallocations, I went over to batch transfers of about 250 songs at a time.  Problem solved.  Thank you VERY MUCH!

     

    That said, three observations:

    • A post on another website taught me to create a playlist in iTunes on my desktop and copy all of my music to the playlist.  This does not transfer any 'missing link' entries (as indicated in the ! column) to the playlist.  I then transferred from that playlist to the main folder on my iPod in smaller batches, which worked without a flaw.
    • This problem WAS a consequence of my updating to the latest version of iTunes.  I say that with certainty now because I was able to transfer my entire iTunes folder to the same iPod in one step four separate times using several previous versions of iTunes without incident.  First, when my iPod was new, once when I was moving all my Holiday music to my 8 GB Nano, and once after my C: drive crashed on the desktop and was replaced, and once recently when I moved my iTunes folder to a larger hard drive that was not the root drive.  Four for Four.  But update to the latest version of iTunes and under the new version the bulk transfer fails.  (As The Fiend pointed out in this thread, the iPod software had not changed.)
    • I have done enough C++ and JAVA programming to know a software problem when I hit one.  This problem is a glitch, not a 'feature'.  But your work-around worked splendidly.
  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Dec 29, 2015 8:51 AM in response to htcannon
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    Dec 29, 2015 8:51 AM in response to htcannon

    Glad it helped.

     

    If you still have the broken links I should be able to help you get them reconnected to the tracks if they exist, or otherwise remove the bad entries from the library.

     

    tt2

  • by Vibe666,

    Vibe666 Vibe666 Jan 9, 2016 11:21 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Jan 9, 2016 11:21 AM in response to turingtest2

    Evening.

     

    retracts: 636

    reallocs: 603

    pending sectors: 6

    power on hours: 759

    Temp: current 28c

    Temp: min 10c

    Temp: max 55c

     

    Any ideas?

     

    160 GB classic  i pod

    LBAs 0x12919ebO fw NB100-05

     

     

    Question about physical geometry hd? testdisk_win rong Parameter...

    Cylinders 4200 ?

    Heads 254?

    Sectors 32?

    Sector-Size 512?

     

    Bye vibe

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jan 9, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Vibe666
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    Jan 9, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Vibe666

    Total reallocs isn't too bad if you can release the 6 that are pending. However if I've done the maths correctly the geometry is suggesting a 16.3 Gb hard drive. Some mistake surely?

     

    tt2

  • by Vibe666,

    Vibe666 Vibe666 Jan 9, 2016 12:56 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jan 9, 2016 12:56 PM in response to turingtest2

    hi,

    some mistake massiv atm ^^ hddRegenerator Software only bad sectors see in 39gb.

    crc...,raw..Cluster...

    Normal Format for ipod hds+ FAT? Fat32?

    I look atm here ..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#CLUST_1

    i will try to understand the Problem to be fix atm confused...

    maby all pat. delrte?

    is correct, the sector 0 may nev er begin pat?

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jan 9, 2016 1:05 PM in response to Vibe666
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    Jan 9, 2016 1:05 PM in response to Vibe666

    Use the DFU restore method to reformat the drive. Alternatively use a Mac to restore a drive that should be in Windows format, or vice versa.

     

    tt2

  • by mrstarlord,

    mrstarlord mrstarlord Jan 31, 2016 7:52 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jan 31, 2016 7:52 PM in response to turingtest2

    Hi, I went into the diagnostics mode and when I ran the SmartDATA test I got 'device opened' and then 'error'.  My iPod does not go into DFU mode when I try that.  Windows seems to think its an unformated drive, but fails when I try to format it (I also tried downloading a fat32 formatting program you mentioned in a different thread which also failed). Doesn't show up in iTunes, but it does show up in Windows device manager.

     

    It isn't just that it doesn't show up on the computer or show that it has music, every time it restarts it goes back to the language selection and the clicker sound turns back on.

     

    I don't care about losing all my stuff on it, I just want to save this thing.  I've been scouring different threads and posts but gotten nothing.  Its five years old, I guess its had a good run.  Does it sound like its dead?

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