ipod wouldnt sync even after restoring

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ipod wouldnt sync even after restoring

so i plugged in my ipod (classic, 6th gen, 120 gb) like i do, ive had it for years upon years but this one time i got an error message telling me there was a duplicate & that it couldnt be synced so i looked around. tried a number of things, put it into disk mode, reformatted it, restored it a bunch, disk checked it (showed no errors). it syncs up to a point where a message "'name of random song' cant be synced" upon which it wont continue to sync & then i get an error message saying " data cant read or written to the ipod" which is odd because it syncs, just not fully..have no idea at all, what to do now, help! please.

iPod classic

Posted on Apr 16, 2015 2:37 PM

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landon dippy Author

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Apr 20, 2015 12:58 PM in response to landon dippy

bump

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landon dippy Author

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Jun 20, 2015 4:43 PM in response to landon dippy

*Also i have & checked for updates for both itunes & ipod, there are none they're both up to date apparently. Ran diagnostics in tunes itself & it flags up no problems for it or my ipod.

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turingtest2

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Jun 20, 2015 5:26 PM in response to landon dippy

See Corrupt iPod classic.

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Jun 21, 2015 7:48 AM in response to turingtest2

Retracts: 20

Reallocs: 2232

Pending Sectors: 376

PowerOn Hours: 807

Start/Stops: 90891

Temp: Current 31c

Temp: Min 8c

Temp: Max 53c

no idea how good or bad those number are

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Jun 21, 2015 8:35 AM in response to landon dippy

Try the DFU restore method. Check the stats after the restore to make sure all of the pendings have turned into reallocs. Use the break up large transfers method to repopulate. If you're lucky it may all work out first time, or it may take a couple of cycles to map out any other bad areas that have yet to be detected. If the numbers just keep getting higher with each attempt then at some point you may have to decide that it has had its day.

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Jun 21, 2015 9:31 AM in response to turingtest2

2nd time after disk check, dfu restore & restore on itunes

Retracts: 20

Reallocs: 2264

Pending Sectors: 416

PowerOn Hours: 809

Start/Stops: 90901

Temp: Current 30c

Temp: Min 8c

Temp: Max 53c

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landon dippy Author

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Jun 21, 2015 9:33 AM in response to turingtest2

going to try break up large transfers method now

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landon dippy Author

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Jun 21, 2015 10:02 AM in response to turingtest2

no luck..same error message as before, it syncs a certain amount of songs & then say "itunes could not copy song to ipod because an unknown error occurred (-50)"

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Jun 21, 2015 10:42 AM in response to landon dippy

Try the reformat drive method in case that does a better job of releasing the pendings.

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landon dippy Author

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Jun 21, 2015 12:10 PM in response to turingtest2

reformatted, rebotted & restored again but no dice, same thing. except now an error message read "attempting to copy to disk failed, the disk could not be read or written to"

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