itunes showing error 1439
My ipod classic will not restore and is showing error 1439 and i have tried every way possible.
iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009)
Read thisApple Support article on error 1439
3 replies
Hey there Palmer
How are you?
Well, I have an iPod Classic, it gave me the error -1436 error and would not restore on iTunes.
I did the following:
My Boss (@work) has a fairly old iBook but it has OS-X, so I decided to give it a try and connected my iPod to it.
The system showed a window telling me that the disk is not MAC formated and needs to be validated prior further action. Snce it is a Mac product, I thought "yeah, go ahead".
It then opens the disk manager utility for the Mac and showed the disk. It's window has some tabs, one is to verify the disk, so I verified it. Guess what, it had some invalid clusters.
Then I formatted the iPod to OS-X Plus file system (next tab to the right). After formating the iPod, I "ejected" the iPod and reconnected to my PC. The Windows iTunes found an iPod with Mac file system and asked me to restore it. As I clicked on the "restore" button, I crossed my fingers as this was the last resource I have.
Finally, after the file extraction was done, it began to restore the iPod!!
I'm so happy about being able to restore the iPod that I decided to share with all you guys this solution as it is the most usefull, in my opinion.
Hope you can find someone with an iBook or a desktop Mac, so you can fix yours.
If it works for you, make sure to share the tip!!
Kind regards
Salvador Rivera
Halogeno, thanks for sharing, yes it would work, especially on those hung iPod with opened files, and usual iTunes Restore on the original OS machine doesn't work, and the Hardisk is still in good condition, and not overheated by rebooting a thousand times.
I dont have an old iBook, but switching my FAT32 to HFS+, using Disk Utility then back to FAT32 on windows, rejuvenate my 80GB iPod 5th Gen, till it overheat again in 5 months.
Muchas Gracias
itunes showing error 1439