Q: ipod classic 160g not syncing with itunes 12.4
since downloading itunes 12.4, it has deleted all my songs off my ipod classic. i've tried to resync it, and though i have 905 songs back on the classic, it's nowhere near the amount of my total (12,000+ songs). every time i try to sync again, it always gets stuck on one song, displaying an "attempting to copy to the disk (insert ipod name) failed. the disk is not available" and a "so-and-so cannot be copied due to an unknown error message (-59)".
in the options menu of the summary tab, i have only these things ticked:
open itunes when this ipod is connected- checked
sync only checked songs and videos- unchecked
convert higher bit rate songs to ...... AAC- unchecked
manually manage music and videos- unchecked
enable disk use- checked
i'm not a technical person so have no idea what those other options are about. what is going on here? im getting real frustrated as this is the first time i've ever experienced this. i've reset my ipod, restarted my laptop, restored my ipod and tried to repair itunes, all to no avail
iPod classic
Posted on Jun 16, 2016 8:40 PM
Yes. You have a dead iPod. The pending sectors are areas of the hard drive that can no longer be read reliably. These are scheduled to be mapped out to reallocations, however those are maxed out. I think 16,384 is the absolute max. count but that's splitting hairs, the drive has clearly had it.
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
Posted on Jun 17, 2016 10:14 AM