OT: Corrupted iPod.

[nuraman00]

I got a message today that my iPod is corrupted. I see some tips on how to trouble shoot it, so I'll try that this weekend.

Anyways, my main question here is let's say I need to get another one.

The one I currently have is engraved with a message, and a date, it was a gift to me.

If I get another one, should I have it engraved with the same message? It kind of feels nice to look at.

On the other hand, a new iPod won't be the same, obviously. I'll have to associate the message with the new iPod too, mentally.

Actually, let's jump back a step. If I have to get another mp3 player, should I even get one by Apple? Or is there another brand/make/model I should look into? I'm not 100% in love with Apple.

 

[nuraman00]

I've been dealing with the ipod for more than 3 hours, 20 minutes today.

And I've been on again, off again talking to Apple Care for more than 2 hours now.

 

[nuraman00]

It started to work better now, but still can't copy everything.

I'm trying formatting the iPod now.

Hopefully that will fix or hide the bad sectors on the drive.

 

[SteelersPride]

ive had that crashed it and reformatted and has worked fine for 2 years, lost all my stuff though

 

[nuraman00]

ive had that crashed it and reformatted and has worked fine for 2 years, lost all my stuff though

I tried the full reformat, but near the end it still gave an error while formatting.

I then tried the quick format. It seemed to work better, but then still couldn't copy everything from my library to my ipod.

Right now I tried to Windows check disk "scan for and recover bad sectors" option. It took over an hour, JUST finished.

Let's see if this did it.

 

[nuraman00]

Ok, I'll try the full reformat one more time. Sigh.

 

[nuraman00]

Oh my goodness, now after this latest format, it can't start properly. It tries to, makes a clicking sound, then tries to restart again. Every 10 seconds.

There's no way to stop it.

I made it worse.

 

[nuraman00]

It does this all by itself and there's no way to stop it. No way it power it off.

 

[cezero]

not sure how to fix it.

but if you do, i recommend backing it up every few months or so.

sharepod is a nice little program for it, thought there might be other better ones.

 

[cezero]

Oh my goodness, now after this latest format, it can't start properly. It tries to, makes a clicking sound, then tries to restart again. Every 10 seconds.

There's no way to stop it.

I made it worse.

if it's making a clicking sound, then it's a physical problem with the ipod's disc drive. if the music/video/picture files you had on it were deleted due to your reformat, then you might as well toss it unless you want to pay for a repair, which would probably take more time and money than just getting a new one.

 

[nuraman00]

iPod stuck in restart loop? don't panic

 

[nuraman00]

if it's making a clicking sound, then it's a physical problem with the ipod's disc drive. if the music/video/picture files you had on it were deleted due to your reformat, then you might as well toss it unless you want to pay for a repair, which would probably take more time and money than just getting a new one.

Hey.

Yeah, the files were deleted off of it. I was hoping after a reformat, I could still copy the library on my computer back to my iPod, but I can't copy everything, there's always some disc error.

Until my latest problem as of a few minutes ago.

 

[HammerDown]

All I can say is never again to iPod or iTunes. Never! I'm free of both of them and it's liberating.

 

[JDM]

Do they not have just a little MP3 player you can throw in a USB part and go any more?


I was going to suggest something like that if all you do is play music but I can't for the life of me find one.

 

[nuraman00]

All I can say is never again to iPod or iTunes. Never! I'm free of both of them and it's liberating.

What do you use now?

 

[nuraman00]

Ok, got out of the infinite restart loop. Going to try synching AGAIN. For the 10+ time today.

I just can't quit this. This is all I've done today (with the playoffs in the background).

 

[nuraman00]

Nope. Disc errors again.

I give up.

 

[JDM]

I was curious and the cheapest I found is this:

Coby MP620 MP3 Player (Black) MP620-8G B&H Photo Video


I used to have one that just looked like a flash drive but they don't seem to exist any more.

 

[HammerDown]

What do you use now?

Amazon Cloud Player instead of iTunes and I love it! With Amazon fort he same price I get instant mp3 access as well as a CD two days later. iTunes is atrocious and expensive.

For a portable mp3 player I use an old droid phone of mine.

 

[nuraman00]

Don't think I'm going to try this, but a handy reference nonetheless.

iPod 5th Generation (Video) Hard Drive Replacement - iFixit