iPod classic screen displaying Red Cross and www.apple.com/support/ipod

My iPod classic has just locked on the screen image below, and won’t reset when the center button and menu buttons are pressed. It just comes up with the screen pictures below. Any ideas on how to restart and retrieve contents? Not by my computer at the moment!

iPod Classic

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 5:55 PM

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Dec 4, 2019 7:26 PM in response to Briper247

Hello,

Checkout this Apple Support Communities post.

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