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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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Oct 20, 2015 6:17 AM in response to turingtest2

I put it into disk mode and reconnected the iPod. It told me I had restore it as it had previously been synced with a Mac so I restored the iPod to allow it to sync with windows. Now, it is syncing the iPod with my iTunes account on the Microsoft machine.


So am I right in thinking that now it should be ok when I plug it back into my Mac? Fingers crossed!!! I'll let you know how it goes.


Thanks.


H.

Nov 4, 2015 4:54 PM in response to turingtest2

Hello I just purchased a used 160gb 6gen and cant restore the Ipod the test results are

Retracts: 23

Reallocs: 302

Pending Sectors: 9

PowerOn Hours: 54

Start/Stops: 198

Temp: Current 29c

Temp: Min 14c

Temp: Max 53c

I've tried everything I came across with no prevail the only thing that changed was when I tried a DFU restore my Itunes unfroze and my ipod when disconnected from usb says connect to itunes to restore but itunes keeps freezing and my computer doesn't recognize the device it never shows up in my pc and at one time I saw Itunes says that a Ipod is in recovery mode but when I reconnect my Ipod it freezes Itunes again thanks for any help =D

Nov 4, 2015 7:02 PM in response to turingtest2

Hm dont think I have any friends that have a Mac I tried with a different cable with no prevail all that happens is Itunes freezes the Ipod is plugged in and sometimes when I use the DFU restore Itunes says that theres a Ipod that is in restore mode to reconnect and when I do Itunes freezes and the Ipod just keeps saying don't disconnect but nothing happens I tried just about every step that was suggested at the beginning of the forum but I cant do this step.

Reformat Drive


If all else fails try Erase your iPod - The Super Fix for most iPod Problems. Basically a low level format of the iPod’s hard drive to get around whatever problems are stopping iTunes from restoring it properly.
I tried to do this step on three different computers two of which I saw the device under devices but it wasn't near the C: drive it was i think the F: drive a few times I was able to get to format the device but it wouldn't be able to format kept saying unable to format the device. Thanks so much for your help =)

Dec 1, 2015 8:36 AM in response to Bundy439

Those numbers don't look too bad, but you probably need to reformat the drive in order to release the pending sectors. You could try manually deleting all files and folders (including hidden ones) via Windows/File Explorer, you could try a quick format, (but it seems you've tried that and failed) or you could try getting a Mac owning friend to restore it for you, and then restore it again on your computer. Windows and OS X put different file systems on the device and this approach often succeeds when others don't.


tt2

Dec 29, 2015 8:22 AM in response to turingtest2

Turingtest2, you are THE MAN! Your excellent post of step-by-step determination led to rapid resolution of my problem. In my case, after the disk checked out fine, 0 retracts and 0 reallocations, I went over to batch transfers of about 250 songs at a time. Problem solved. Thank you VERY MUCH!


That said, three observations:

  • A post on another website taught me to create a playlist in iTunes on my desktop and copy all of my music to the playlist. This does not transfer any 'missing link' entries (as indicated in the ! column) to the playlist. I then transferred from that playlist to the main folder on my iPod in smaller batches, which worked without a flaw.
  • This problem WAS a consequence of my updating to the latest version of iTunes. I say that with certainty now because I was able to transfer my entire iTunes folder to the same iPod in one step four separate times using several previous versions of iTunes without incident. First, when my iPod was new, once when I was moving all my Holiday music to my 8 GB Nano, and once after my C: drive crashed on the desktop and was replaced, and once recently when I moved my iTunes folder to a larger hard drive that was not the root drive. Four for Four. But update to the latest version of iTunes and under the new version the bulk transfer fails. (As The Fiend pointed out in this thread, the iPod software had not changed.)
  • I have done enough C++ and JAVA programming to know a software problem when I hit one. This problem is a glitch, not a 'feature'. But your work-around worked splendidly.

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