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
I realize that this thread hasn't been active for a while, but I'm desperate. I got a refurbished iPod classic 120gb and a couple of months ago, all of a sudden it would not play any songs when it was connected to any device (at the time that the iPod stopped working it was plugged into my car's "media" player) or headphones. It just kept skipping to the next song but would not play. The songs play fine in iTunes. I tried to restore the iPod but when I connect the iPod and open iTunes i get "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes." I hit the OK button, click "restore iPod," another window pops up and says "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes." I click "Restore" and immediately get another window that says "The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred 1434)." I have tried to do all of the steps listed and used different cords, but so far nothing has worked. I have a 2013 MacBook Air, and I've done the Disk Utility/First Aid and the only thing it says when I run the First Aid is that it was completed. I have also tried erasing the iPod from this section too but I just keep getting error messages that say "Unable to write to the last block of the device" and that the operation failed. When I try the Restore option from the Disk Utility it immediately pops up with a red stop sign and says "Validating target..., Validating source..., The volume on device "/dev/disk0" is not of type Apple_HFS or Apple_UFS, Could not validate source - Device not configured, Operation failed…" And when I go to check the diagnostics, sometimes I get a "ERROR Diag Halt" message, and other times the only specs I can get from it are Temp: current 32c, min 0c, and max 0c. I don't even see any stats for Retracts, Reallocs, Pending Sector, PowerOn Hours, Start/Stops. I have no idea what else to do or if the iPod is still salvageable. Any help r insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi, I tried what you said exactly, but I don't think it's working....It's just sitting at this point with the cursor blinking after hitting enter:
some songs that are showing as synced not playing seems right up your alley - cheers - ÇÇÇ
What are the stats? See the first page of this thread for the method to access them. Re: Corrupt iPod classic.
tt2
You're welcome. See this recent post by Kenichi Watanabe: Re: My iPod Classic 160Gb won't register in iTunes which gives a link to a potential DIY drive replacement.
tt2
This is great thank you i will try all these and post the results. Thank you very much!
Is there anyway to delete the pending sectors? I don't really want to reformat my ipod and lose all that music :/
If you formatted the device any files stored on it are gone. 😟
The first step in my initial post advices you to recover your media from any manually managed device.
tt2
i just checked the stats again, and this time nothing changed, even after a hung sync. is that a good sign
My test results are:
Retracts: 11
Reallocs: 16376
Pending Sectors: 0
Start/Stops: 1706
Temp: Current 26c
Temp: Min 11c
Temp: Max 54c
just to check, would these results mean the hdd is bust? :c
Corrupt iPod classic
