My IPod is dead :(
Hi all, u may want to get comfortable. This post is going to be loooong. Sorry in advance|! Well I've spent the last week or so trying to figure out whats gone wrong. I've googled, yahoo'd and looked through loads of forums but i'm still clueless.
Basically my IPod is a complete mess atm. It started around a week and a half ago. I added new songs to my library, synced it then ejected it. All was fine. the next time i plugged it in it told me it was corrupt so i restored it. After that it kept freezing itunes completely so i couldn't even restore it again. I went and formatted it using windows and it then showed in itunes, said it was corrupt so i went and restored it all again. When it restored i synced my library again and ejected it. But then the IPod just showed 'No Music'. Theres no audio just other according to the ipod. If i try and connect it to my laptop again it freezes up itunes again so it's useless.
I went ahead and did a full format of the ipod on the advice of someone from another forum. Had it set to exFAT and 256kb. Took around 5 hours to get half way through the format so i left the laptop running over night to finish. Looked at it the next morning and i had the message 'windows could not complete the format'
So i unplugged the ipod but now it's stuck on the apple logo! my old ipod did this to me before, had to send it back to apple and they sent me a new one saying they didn't really know the cause of the problem. It wasn't so bad sending it back before because it was under warranty.
The apple logo goes away after around 7-8 minutes and it shows the screen where u choose the language. It still says 'no music' but now in the 'about' section on the ipod it says 111 GB used 0 KB free. All the bar is orange indicating that my ipod is full....full?....full of what? Album art? Thats impossible. It obviously needs to be reformatted...again. I tried putting the IPod into disk mode after resetting it but nothing happens after 20 secs of holding it down. But it occurred to me that it took ages for that language screen to show maybe if i held the play and select button down for a while it would finally go into disk mode....6 minutes and a sore thumb later it went into disk mode however itunes still freezes, it won't even launch. So the problem remains that i can't format it using windows. It's crashing windows explorer everytime and doesn't show up if i go through the computer>manage>disk management route. Any suggestions?
I'm running itunes 9 1.1.12 on a 32 bit vista HP laptop. My IPod is a 120Gb classic making it 6th generation? Not sure. Any kind of help or advice would be grately appreciated. This is the longest i've gone without an mp3 player since i was 15 and it's driving me crazy!!
Basically my IPod is a complete mess atm. It started around a week and a half ago. I added new songs to my library, synced it then ejected it. All was fine. the next time i plugged it in it told me it was corrupt so i restored it. After that it kept freezing itunes completely so i couldn't even restore it again. I went and formatted it using windows and it then showed in itunes, said it was corrupt so i went and restored it all again. When it restored i synced my library again and ejected it. But then the IPod just showed 'No Music'. Theres no audio just other according to the ipod. If i try and connect it to my laptop again it freezes up itunes again so it's useless.
I went ahead and did a full format of the ipod on the advice of someone from another forum. Had it set to exFAT and 256kb. Took around 5 hours to get half way through the format so i left the laptop running over night to finish. Looked at it the next morning and i had the message 'windows could not complete the format'
So i unplugged the ipod but now it's stuck on the apple logo! my old ipod did this to me before, had to send it back to apple and they sent me a new one saying they didn't really know the cause of the problem. It wasn't so bad sending it back before because it was under warranty.
The apple logo goes away after around 7-8 minutes and it shows the screen where u choose the language. It still says 'no music' but now in the 'about' section on the ipod it says 111 GB used 0 KB free. All the bar is orange indicating that my ipod is full....full?....full of what? Album art? Thats impossible. It obviously needs to be reformatted...again. I tried putting the IPod into disk mode after resetting it but nothing happens after 20 secs of holding it down. But it occurred to me that it took ages for that language screen to show maybe if i held the play and select button down for a while it would finally go into disk mode....6 minutes and a sore thumb later it went into disk mode however itunes still freezes, it won't even launch. So the problem remains that i can't format it using windows. It's crashing windows explorer everytime and doesn't show up if i go through the computer>manage>disk management route. Any suggestions?
I'm running itunes 9 1.1.12 on a 32 bit vista HP laptop. My IPod is a 120Gb classic making it 6th generation? Not sure. Any kind of help or advice would be grately appreciated. This is the longest i've gone without an mp3 player since i was 15 and it's driving me crazy!!
Windows Vista
