Q: iPod classic 160 GB will not appear in iTunes
My iPod Classic 160 GB all of a sudden stopped showing up in iTunes yesterday. It still shows up on my computer, though. I tried resetting my iPod. Then I tried restarting my computer and iPod. Then I tried updating the software for my computer and iTunes. Then I tried putting the iPod in disk mode. Then, I even completely deleted iTunes and reinstalled it to my Mac. Nothing I have tried has worked.
iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009), iOS 9.3.1
Posted on Apr 27, 2016 9:11 AM
That's a message from the OS X system (not directly related to iTunes) indicating there is data corruption on the iPod's drive. If your computer's drive had data corruption, you'd see a similar message, so it's not specific to iPods. (Your iPod is basically a mini hard drive with a built-in music player.)
Normally, when you put an iPod into Disk Mode and run iTunes, iTunes picks it up as an iPod in "recovery mode," and prompts you to d a Restore. Doing a Restore erases the iPod's drive, and that gets rid of the data corruption (if there's no hardware problem). For some reason, iTune is not recognizing your iPod. And that's why you may want to try doing the Erase using Disk Utility.
But, if there's a hardware problem that caused the data corruption, the Erase may fail with Disk Utility, or you may not be able to do the Restore and re-sync with iTunes.
Posted on Apr 29, 2016 12:46 PM