-
All replies
-
Helpful answers
-
Feb 6, 2016 4:55 PM in response to noelplibtby Kenichi Watanabe,I have even older iPods, and they work fine with the latest OS X and iTunes.
An iPod nano uses flash-based storage (not a hard drive), but flash storage can eventually wear out and become faulty. You already tried what I would have done, which is to erase it like a USB flash drive using Disk Utility. Since that did not resolve the problem, the most like cause is faulty flash storage on the iPod.
-
by Kenichi Watanabe,Feb 6, 2016 5:01 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe
Kenichi Watanabe
Feb 6, 2016 5:01 PM
in response to Kenichi Watanabe
Level 8 (38,924 points)
Mac OS XOne additional note. When you did the Erase using Disk Utility, if the iPod appears (in Disk Utility's sidebar) as a device with a volume indented below, be sure to select the device in the sidebar, not the volume. When you select the device, you are also re-doing the partition scheme during the Erase. If you select the volume, you are only erasing the volume.