PS: Again i tried multiple times to restore via iTunes since that's what the device said to do, but again nothing happened in iTunes, and in looking at My Computer in Windows 10 the iPod device continued to appear as a USB Disk with gb of free space. I may have asked before, but forgot your response, but do you think a restore would work if I just used somebody else's computer that happens to have iTunes installed? I'm sure you should be able to get into diagnostics mode even when the device won't start up normally.
Showing up as an external drive is standard when the device is in recovery mode and wants to be restored. Yes, try restoring on another computer, or as I said previously try dropping back to iTunes Found something interesting I want to share with you. Found a neighbor with an Apple Mac and he was able to restore my iPod immediately. However when I plugged the restored iPod into my computer to use iTunes, I received a message stating that the device needed to be formatted apparently the Mac formatted it as a kb file.
So I did format in Windows 10 selecting the exfat default since it did not offer fat32 and re-connected to iTunes. So now I have an iPod that looks like an iPod when I open it up and see the menu, but to iTunes it still just looks like a Disk!
After letting the Mac restore it you should restore it again in iTunes for Windows. Don't use Windows tools to format the drive. If Windows 10 or at least your machine still won't do it properly then find someone running Windows 7 to help. Aug 17, PM in response to turingtest2 In response to turingtest2. I found a neighbor with iTunes on a Windows PC. The neighbor's PC, and iTunes, were able to recognize the device as an iPod.
I had the neighbor do an iTunes restore again on a Windows machine ; it worked fine, and his machine, and iTunes, was able to read the device as an iPod. However, when I came home and USB connected the iPod to my machine using the same cable cord I used at the neighbor's Windows 10 recognized it only as a USB device; not an iPod, and obviously, iTunes didn't recognize it at all. What am I doing wrong? PS: Another odd thing: When I use the click-wheel commands to attempt to do a diagnostic test, it doesn't work.
When the Apple logo appears, and I switch the one finger to the click-wheel command on the left to call up the diagnostics white screen, it hesitates for awhile and then goes back to the menu screen.
So while it looks like an iPod, it doesn't behave like an iPod for this particular function. Also tried to do a DFU Restore using click-wheel commands and that didn't work either. Also if this helps the About setting on the ipod shows it with MB of used space and gb of free space. The format in Windows 10 shows it to be FAT Even if it's possible the issue is with the version of iTunes although I'm on the current version retrieved via the website; not the Store ; that wouldn't appear to explain my click-wheel dilemma which is independent of iTunes.
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This is what I would do if you asked me to come over and fix it for you. So, I found the answer on wikihow. Steps to format repeated here for posterity. I haven't yet tried this, so will update depending on what success I get. This worked in so far as it didn't kill my iPod and allowed me to do a restore. The iPod still never completes its sync however.
You may want to try the hit it with a hammer approach Disclaimer : You have to be crazy to try this. Treating precision electronics in this way may appear to make a difference but will almost inevitably lead to worse problems in the long run I've tried a few methods - from running checkdisk in windows, to creating a new fat file system in linux. To make things worse, the 'old' gb ipod uses a non standard drive which can't be replaced easily.
You're free to try whatever methods you wish, but chances are you'd be wasting your time, unfortunately. If something DOES work, let me know. Well, I've done some research seeing as though I'm in the same boat as you. Obviously you can use a third party utility to fix or attempt to fix these bad sectors. I found out that if you have pending sectors they are just waiting to be re-mapped so there kind of pushed to the side. Sign up to join this community.
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How can I wipe my iPod classic and fix any bad sectors on the hard drive without killing it? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 6 months ago. Active 8 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 71k times. My iPod never finishes syncing and only syncs audio, not pictures or video. Any ideas as to how I can fix it?
Any advice on what to try next much appreciated?
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