completley reseting the iPod 30GB

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completley reseting the iPod 30GB

I'm giving away my old iPod - don't know what generation, but the one with the 4 buttons below the screen.
I want to completely restore the iPod, with nothing left inside.
I managed to get rid of the music, but how do I empty the calendar and the adress book?

Thanks for any hints.

Posted on Oct 13, 2005 7:59 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 13, 2005 9:30 AM in response to Henri Boehm

Open Updater and RESTORE the iPod to Factory settings. That reformats the iPod, wipping out everything.

If you want to be extra sure that it's gone, use a disk utility to erase (pick, clean format, low level format, zero all data or whatever your utility has ... and then do the iPod RESTORE.

I really don't think the latter step is necessary.

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Henri Boehm Author

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Oct 13, 2005 1:38 PM in response to Richard Stephens

Richard,
thanks for the infos.
I forgot to mention that I have two iPods. I only want to restore ONE iPod. Now how do I know I erase the stuff in the right iPod?

Thank you!

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Answer 3

Oct 13, 2005 3:07 PM in response to Henri Boehm

Keep the good one in your pocket while you connect the one to be erased to your computer. Restore only works on the iPod that's connected.

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Answer 4

Henri Boehm Author

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Oct 13, 2005 4:09 PM in response to Richard Stephens

Thanks Richard.
The restore was sucessfull !

🙂

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