Corrupted iPod, Won't Restore, Error 1416

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Corrupted iPod, Won't Restore, Error 1416

I switched from a PC to Mac last summer and only today realized I had never officially formatted my iPod for Mac, so I decided to do that. Everything updated and seemed to be working fine. I just tried to connect my iPod to update some new music, and I've hit a storm of trouble. I connected it and iTunes said my iPod was corrupted and needed to be restored. I then tried to restore it and got a message saying "The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1416)." What should I do? This is pretty terrible, I have a 4-5 hour drive tomorrow that will apparently now be iPod-less. My computer is fully up to date with Leopard. Thanks in advance for any help.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 11:07 PM

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Mar 7, 2008 1:41 AM in response to doogievik

Have you tried using Disk Utility? It's under Applications - Utilities. Select your iPod as the volume to work with, and try doing the first aid stuff first, and if that doesn't help, you should be able to restore the iPod from there. Good luck!

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Mar 7, 2008 7:57 AM in response to doogievik

Thanks, I'll try it out later today. When I plug the iPod in, it doesn't show up anywhere outside of iTunes as mounted though, so I'm not sure it will come up as a drive on disk utility.

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Mar 7, 2008 3:01 PM in response to doogievik

So disk utility will not let me perform any actions. Oddly, it says my 30 gb iPod's capacity is "540 GB", if only that were true. When I click restore it asks me what disk image I want to use. Where should I go from here?

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Mar 7, 2008 3:20 PM in response to doogievik

sorry i mean it won't let me perform any first aid actions. the buttons for restore and erase are not grayed out like the ones under first aid, but i'm a little wary about using disk utility to erase the iPod from what i've read online.

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