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Corrupt iPod classic

My sister has corrupted her ipod classic by using the windows explorer eject route in vista rather than the eject button in iTunes. the PC no longer recognizes the iPod as a disc any ideas guys n gals ?


Ive tried a resst to no avail


I also tried putting into disc mode again un responsive!


can it be recovered ?


thanks

iPod classic

Posted on May 9, 2013 12:18 PM

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Sep 10, 2015 12:19 PM in response to turingtest2

Hi tt2,


Plugging the iPod into my work laptop hasn't done anything other than ask me if i want to re-format it... i think not. Windows Media Player doesn't seem to have anything useful in it, and we cannot run any downloaded software without admin rights. I guess I will just have to wait until I get home in a couple of weeks and try itunes. Luckily i can get some of my music from the cloud onto my phone or ipad in an emergency 🙂... just not 5000+ tracks...

Sep 11, 2015 7:52 AM in response to turingtest2

I had previously posted this in another thread, but it seems like my corruption problem is actually fairly similar to those mentioned here.


Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.


Recently (one week ago), I installed the latest itunes update on my computer, a Dell Inspiron (OS: Windows 7). Since then, anytime my ipod is connected, the contents of my ipod are deleted and I am prompted to restore the ipod.


Prior to the update, there were no issues with my ipod.


My ipod is a classic 120 gb.


I ran the ipod in diagnostics mode and the following are the results of the scan:

Retracts: 19

Reallocs: 72

Pending Sectors: 0

PowerOn Hours: 1225

Start/Stops: 21163

Temp: Current 31c

Temp: Min 57c

Temp: Max 245c


After posting this, I hooked up my ipod to my computer, and after finding my ipod as a drive, right clicked the drive, selected properties, then tools, and then, under error checking, selected scan and attempt recovery of bad sectors. No problems were found.


This problem has been very frustrating for a number of reasons.


Does anyone have any solutions to this problem or am I simply out of luck because the drive is failing?


I have an appointment at an apple store tomorrow, but am not optimistic.


iPod classic, Windows 7

Sep 26, 2015 7:26 PM in response to Bongo73

I've got an iPod classic from 2007 or 2008 (can't really remember), 80gb, and it's randomly just stopped working.


Did all the things listed in the first post, and this is what I got:


Retracts: 11

Reallocs: 1648

Pending Sectors: 312

PowerOn Hours: 4359

Start/Stops: 10253

Temp: Current 35c

Temp: Min 64c

Temp: Max 239c


I know the numbers are so out of whack, but honestly, I just wanna know if it'll ever work again or if I should just let go of it.

Thanks in advance

Sep 27, 2015 3:04 AM in response to sheduoj

sheduoj wrote:


I've got an iPod classic from 2007 or 2008 (can't really remember), 80gb, and it's randomly just stopped working.


Did all the things listed in the first post, and this is what I got:


Retracts: 11

Reallocs: 1648

Pending Sectors: 312

PowerOn Hours: 4359

Start/Stops: 10253

Temp: Current 35c

Temp: Min 64c

Temp: Max 239c


I know the numbers are so out of whack, but honestly, I just wanna know if it'll ever work again or if I should just let go of it.

Thanks in advance


If you are lucky a few rounds of DFU restore or reformat might release all of those pending sectors. If that doesn't work you could consider replacing the drive. Otherwise call it a day.


tt2

Oct 20, 2015 4:44 AM in response to Bongo73

Hi,


I have an iPod classic 5th gen and am having the exact same problems. So I have read through this thread and tried everything as suggested but nothing has worked. All of my music is backed up, so I restored my iPod (so it now has no music on it), and I took the readings below. I also tried the same in disk mode.


Retracts: 4

Reallocs: 0

Pending Sectors: 0

PowerOn Hours: 64

Start/Stops: 12957

Temp: Current 27c

Temp: Min 57c

Temp: Max 251c


On other posts it says that if there are no reallocs or pending sectors then there could be hope...is this right? Do I stand any chance at getting my iPod working or do I need to replace the hard drive as others have suggested?


Any help would be really appreciated.


Thanks.

Oct 20, 2015 5:27 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks for the reply.


My iPod won't show in iTunes. It just tells me that the iPod is corrupt and I can restore or disconnect and reconnect. So iTunes doesn't recognise the iPod and I can't sync anything to it. I am on a Macbook so have checked Disk Utilities and tried to repair the iPod in First Aid but it doesn't allow me to do anything, only eject the iPod (which doesn't work).


Any ideas?


H.

Corrupt iPod classic

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