Broken iPod Harddisk is not necessarily Broken
My brother owns a 5th Generation Video iPod and since some time the iPod was freezing on some songs and I was unable to sync it properly. After about 2 GB transfered data OS X ejected the iPod and sometimes iTunes locked up in a way that the only way to kill iTunes and get working USB ports again was restarting the notebook.
However Graham sent me a link yesterday to some articles where people encountered the same problems. Among some solutions I haven’t tried (like opening the ipod and putting a small pile paper behind the harddisk) there was one that proposed zeroing out the harddisk.
I did that and it didn’t help. However I noticed that the disk ran a lot more silent than before. So I continued that process 7 times over the night and this morning I was able to reload the iPod without a problem. After a complet resync I tried all the songs on the device that made problems before and those pass. Of course now other songs could be broken but beside that it runs a lot faster now I haven’t encountered any “funny harddisk sounds” during the testing.
Definitively worth a try. Don’t give up on iPods that fast :-)
Glad to hear you got it working, was meaning to ask. :-)
Comment by Graham Dumpleton — Monday, November 19th, 2007 @ 6:40 amHi, i’m having actually the same problem, but mine actually everytime i restart manually the ipod it’s freezes and it start to vibrate, I believe that the hard disk is broken. But if you had to just open it, i would like to know what was the process to this opening and doing everything else. It’s only been a year since i got it and i don’t want to through it away or what ever, all my life is in there!.. Help?
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