iPod Classic

Nothing else I can think of just now other than syncing small chunks of media using the break up large transfers method when you try to reload it.

tt2

Oh! Good idea. I have ~20gb of music in my library (I had cut it down quite a lot which is where this entire mess began) - I will try syncing in 5gb increments. I really do hope this works.

Start really small just to confirm that the device works properly otherwise. Then increase the chunk size.

tt2

I tried the actions recommended in the original post and got the message:

[can't open device]

ERROR! Diag Halt

I'm assuming this thing is toast?

Yes, I think so. 😟

I suppose you could try the iPod slap technique.

tt2

You're welcome. Good luck.

tt2

I think so. New iPod, or new drive for the old one.

tt2

If it is brand new I might settle for one or two reallocs, but really I'd expect it to be perfect.

tt2

I think it is time to call it on that drive. You could price up a DIY or third party swap out of the drive and see if you think it is worth trying.

tt2

I hoenstly cannot thank you enough for all your suggestions. I will let you know what ends up working, now that I know that it isn't an issue with my hardware.

Have a great day!

You're welcome. 🙂

Best of luck getting it all sorted out.

tt2

After doing ALL of your suggested fixes, I get this message when I try to repair disk in the utility app on my MacBook Pro: Error: Live file system repair is not supported. Any suggestions?

I'm afraid I don't know enough about the OS X disk checking utility to make suggestions. What are the iPod's HDD stats?

tt2

I had a similar problem and one very dull day I went through half of my 24GB, 4000+ song library and discovered around 10% of songs were being skipped straight over by my 2009 160GB ipod classic and others were playing halfway through and then stopping.

Until I found this thread I couldn't find a fix. I repaired the disk in disk utility and then restored it in itunes back to factory settings. I then added all the music back on the ipod, one letter of the alphabet at a time (that was a few hours wasted!) After going through 1% of my library, I've come across no problems so far, I think it may have been fixed!!

Only other thing that may have attributed to this is that I had previously stored all my music on an external HDD, and recently upgraded my mac to 1TB and moved all my music back across. I wonder if somewhere between the external hdd and the ipod it was corrupting the files??

Only issue I've come across is its now showing an error in diag mode when I run the HDSMARTData test, it worked before... any ideas anyone??

Outside shot: http://joshhighland.com/blog/2006/03/29/fix-your-ipod-by-spanking-it/

Or you could take it apart and make sure the drive cable is connected properly.

tt2