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I've an iPod Classic 160 GB bought in 2007.
Get the best deal for ipod classic 160gb hard drive from the largest. Is the OEM drive used in the iPod Classic 160GB 7th Generation. Step 2: Using USB cables, connect both iPod and external hard drive to the PC. TunesMate will recognize and show your iPod in the primary window at once. Step 3: Go to “Music” tab from the top menu and you will be in the “Music” window. Check all or those music you want to copy. Click “Export” and then “Export to PC”.
I've never had problems copying songs into it, through iTunes, but from the beginning I never had much success using it as a portable hard drive. Whenever I tried copying large files, or many files, into it, it would hang and reboot after a while.
The same happens when I tried copying videos into it, also through iTunes, to the extension that iTunes complains that it can't read or write to the iPod.
Usually, restoring the iPod returns it to the state that I can copy songs again, but when I increase the usage to videos or large files the trouble starts again.
I'm pretty convinced it has a bad hard drive, but it is not covered by warranty anymore. Fixing it at a local Apple representative would cost as much as buying a new one, and the ifixit howto is pretty much discouraging, besides stating that video iPod use special hard drives and they don't sell them anymore.
I was hoping that mounting the iPod in disk mode and running a check disk would mark the bad sectors and allow me use it as a <160GB iPod, but I can't find what tool would do that on the Mac.
What do you recommend? How should I proceed?
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You can try to diagnose if the disk has a problem with the diagnostic mode.
To enter the diagnostic mode, press the folowing key for 5 seconds when the apple logo appears after a reset :
In the diagnotic mode, you can navigate in the menus with the back/next keys and launch a bunch of test, inluding hard drive tests.
If the tests shows a disk problem, the solution is to change the disk. Buying a second-hand ipod disk from someone who breack his screen won't normaly be very expensive.
Nicolas NOELNicolas NOEL
It wasn't clear from your question—can you mount the iPod as a hard drive?
If you can, try running Disk Utility on it.
DoriDori6,97811 gold badge2828 silver badges4040 bronze badges
When you are certain the drive is broken (and this does happen), you can buy a new drive (for example on ebay).
You can find another link to buy the drive, and an installation guide on how to install the drive on iFixit
I had similar issues and replaced the drive with succes. It is not so hard to do it yourself.
CousinCocaineCousinCocaine6,63299 gold badges4040 silver badges6666 bronze badges
Most likely your iPod Classic hardisk has got stuck in retract, but if you are lucky, try the Hard Reset.
Ruairidh BruceRuairidh Bruce
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