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ipod corrupted - Error -53 when attempting to sync 160gb ipod classic

Every time I attach my ipod to my PC (Vista) I get a windows message that the drive is corrupted. I also get to various points of the syncing process in itunes and it fails to complete as I get an itunes error message number -53. I seem to have tried everything - re-formatting drive, restoring ipod, resetting ipod, deleting files that were being synced at the time of the syncing failure, but I can't seem to solve this problem and cannot find any info on error -53 anywhere on itunes support or even when searching on the web.

Can anyone help please??

Thanks.

HP dv9000, Windows Vista

Posted on Jan 17, 2008 4:19 AM

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May 6, 2008 3:13 PM in response to jasonjs

Um - I just had this exact problem with my nephew's 160. Would not sync, though it appeared that it was - only could get about 3G of music and maybe 2G of videos on it. I took it to an Apple store today and the tech told me this is a known issue - bad hard drive. He replaced it.

I don't think it's a FAT32 issue. I think it's because these hard drives are super skinny and fragile, and they haven't been around that long. Take it back.

ipod corrupted - Error -53 when attempting to sync 160gb ipod classic

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