My iPod classic (160 GB) is always showing "DO not disconnect" msg when connected to my MAC. iPod is not recognised by Mac as well as iTunes. When unplugged it shows "reset using iTunes" msg flashes and immediately go into stand by mode. When I'm in Disk mode "Ok to disconnect" with a tick mark appears. But when connected to Mac again the same "do not disconnect" msg appears.... Any solutions?
See What happened to iTunes? - Apple Support. In Big Sur iTunes has been replaced my Music, TV, Podcasts, Books and Finder. Device management duties have moved into Finder so this is where you go to restore the device if required. If it won't show up in Finder you may need to try another cable and/or check for fluff in the docking port.
The realloc count of 2,296 is reasonably low (about 15% of capacity), however the device will not sync or operate successfully until the 144 pendings have been converted into reallocations, along with any other new unreliable sectors/clusters that might be discovered while this is being done. See my user tip Corrupt iPod Classic - Apple Community and follow the advice on the DFU restore process or reformatting the drive. This will wipe the drive, so if you need to recover media from the device start with the first section of the tip first.
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See What happened to iTunes? - Apple Support. In Big Sur iTunes has been replaced my Music, TV, Podcasts, Books and Finder. Device management duties have moved into Finder so this is where you go to restore the device if required. If it won't show up in Finder you may need to try another cable and/or check for fluff in the docking port.
The realloc count of 2,296 is reasonably low (about 15% of capacity), however the device will not sync or operate successfully until the 144 pendings have been converted into reallocations, along with any other new unreliable sectors/clusters that might be discovered while this is being done. See my user tip Corrupt iPod Classic - Apple Community and follow the advice on the DFU restore process or reformatting the drive. This will wipe the drive, so if you need to recover media from the device start with the first section of the tip first.
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The key number is pendings, do you have any of those. Have you tried restoring the device through Finder on the current Mac? I assume that all the media on the iPod is also in your library or stored safely somewhere else.
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From the user tip:
Another approach for a Windows formatted iPod is to get a Mac owning friend to restore the device and then return it to you for restoring again on Windows, or have a Mac formatted iPod restored by a Windows user and then restore it again on a Mac.
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The Do not disconnect message is standard when the iPod detects that it connected to a computer and means you should use an eject mechanism on the computer to safely close any file operations before you disconnect the device. See Corrupt iPod Classic - Apple Community. What are your HDD stats? What version of macOS are you running?
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Thank U for the suggestion. Unfortunately my Mac / Music (BIG SUR OS) is not recognising the IPOD when connected using an USB. Once connected to laptop the iPod is in loop and displays "do not Disconnect". If I disconnect from laptop, I get a message in IPod saying "Use iTunes to Restore" and goes into Sleep mode.
Thank u for taking your time to reply... some of the no’s are retract - 180; reallocs - 2296: pending sectors-144 : power on hrs:46; Curr temp 12C... I hv not tried using finder. But my mac is not recognising the iPod... Still I can try thru finder? Please let me know how to restore thru finder even if it does not recognise when connected using USB?
OK ..First I tried "DFU Restore " method... It went into Finder, 'Ipod Recovery Mode' and displayed "Restore Ipod"....When I press Restore Ipod , it comes back with the msg "Software for this Ipod not currently available".
Then I tried the final method to format using Disk Utility. It started formatting with a display "Erasing apple iPod media (disk2) and creating VishyIPod". Cursor was rolling from left to right for few seconds, then "Operation Failed", "Erase Process has failed" and "Disk object invalid or Unable to Serialise(-69818)" msg displayed... and I am back to square one...
My Ipod was working normally till yesterday and I just connected to sync few more music....thats it... My iPod corrupted...
Good... Ipod got reset using Windows. But again when I connected to my Mac , I was trying to reset the iPod it again gave an error. So I was trying to erase using Disk Utility using Mac OS Extended Journal option but again it is failed....
I have something like 2200 in Reallocs.
Sorry the error no is -69810 not as mentioned -69818...
That's frustrating. What are the stats now? Did the pendings get converted yet?
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IPOD Classic Reset
