My iPod had been working perfectly fine for a couple of months now. It has 80GB. When I plugged it in today, it had a popup that said my iPod is corrupt and needs to be restored or replugged. I did this for about 10 times and each time a pop up says: The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1439).
Okay, this is nuts. I got a 120GB iPod as a gift. I am running the latest version of iTunes, and I also have two iphones. Everything is up to date. When I tried to sync my 120GB iPod classic, I got a message that the ipod was corrupt and needed to be restored. The restoration process does not work, and I end up with error 1439 every time. I have tried everything, from different USB jacks, to new cables. I have restarted my computer, reset my ipod, tried to go into disk mode - I even tried (without success) to reformat my ipod - and still - the same error. I have owned ipods for years, and never had any problems. Maddening.
I have also tried the solutions listed throughout this forum - from retrograding to an old version of itunes, to renewing drivers with the windows batch file. None of this has worked. To make it worse, I tried to return the ipod to Wal Mart, where it was purchased, but they would not take it back. They told me they have had too many problems, and I should send it back to Apple. Thanks for standing behind your stuff Wal Mart.
APPLE!!!! Fix this crap. This is hurting your reputation more than you can believe. How is it possible that there are thousands of people with this problem, yet no one can come up with a fix? This is seriously lame. Please help!
Had the same problem couple of months ago, i searched everywhere in the forums and topics about it, but nothing worked, i maby already restored my 80gb ipod 15 times and itunes reinstalled like 10 minutes ago like 10 times but nothing works?
Sorry for the dumb question but, how can i put my Ipod into 'disk mode' or something, i saw it worked by someone?
ty guys
It is good to know at least I am not the only one, I have 4gb ipod, and it was working fine, then the battery died and when I plugged it back in, it said it was corrupted and needed to be restored...blah blah, gave me the same error, and I could not even wipe it manually, or through explorer. I my buddies computer at least could open it though. No me gusta eso.
hi
replace the usb lead
if not that
then take the hard drive out and connect to computer go to management then disc drives remove partitions format put it back in ipod connect to itunes restore
all should be good
So I was having a similar issue when I connected my ipod classic to my iMac I got the message from iTunes that my iPod may be corrupt and needed to be restored or disconnect and try connecting again. Later that day I also had issues getting a USB drive to mount. I decided to reboot and do the PRam reset (hold down ctrl-cmd-p-r on a reboot). That fixed both my issues.
My 20GB Classic has been dead for a few months and I've been trying every week or so to get it fixed without success UNTIL I read a post about changing the USB lead. I lost my original lead a while back and had been using a non-original lead I bought on Ebay until today when I borrowed a friends OE lead and my Ipod now works.
*MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING AN ORIGINAL APPLE USB CABLE AND IF NOT THEN GO AND BUY/BORROW ONE!!!!!!!!* 🙂
