15G classic ipod freezes itunes 9.2

My old school ipod was working just fine until I updated to itunes 9.2. Now my pc won't recognize it....itunes won't recognize it & it freezes on the diagnostics! I can't restore it & I can't re-format it. Is it dead???? I love this thing!

it appears the ipod is dead! have bought a new one!can't wait to see how itunes deals w/ the new one!

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Syncing Classic IPod to ITunes on a G5

After 5 plus years of success I can no longer sync my classic IPod to ITunes on my G5. It will sync for a short time and move some songs to the IPod, but then will stop with the following message:
"Attempting to copy to the disk "my ipod" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."
I can repeat the attempts to sync by dismissing the message and asking it to sync again. The process will repeat as before, but the sync time will decrease until it will refuse to sync. The message comes up every time.
I have tried about everything I can think of or get from support here and at Apple.
Here is the crazy part. I have a G5 (power PC) and a laptop (Intel) and the classic IPod (40 GB about 5 1/2 years old) and a new Nano. I cannot sync the classic IPod on the G5 but can on the laptop; w/o problem. I can also sync the Nano on the G5 (or the laptop) w/o any problem.
It seems to be that the PowerPC G5 will no longer talk to the classic IPod.
I have reset and restored the IPod; I have re-created my ITunes library; I have tried the two USB 2.0 ports on the G5 tower, and I have tried three different cables. Nothing fixes the problem.
I thought it might be related to ITunes 9.0.3; but nothing changed when I went to ITunes 9.1.
Anyone else seeing this? Anyone have any ideas? I would appreciate some new approach that I have not tried.
Thanks
John

iTunes can only sync Apple devices, and Apple has gone to great lengths to keep it that way.
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Ipod classic 80 freezes itunes and won't work

upgraded itunes to 10.1 (etc). plugged in formerly operating ipod classic 80. it showed up in the device list,. but i could not move the cursor off music. had to use ctrl-alt-delete to close itunes.
ipod would not disconnect. tried to disconnectg by clicking on eject media (i'm using windows 7), but nothing happened. was forced to disconnect ipod the wrong way- by pulling out the usb, and only then did uit say- ok to disconnect.
itunes then unfroze.
removed itunes following apples list of how to do it. reinstalled itunes.
reset ipod. started itunes. music plays in itunes. plugged ipod in. it showed up in the device lisiting, but i was unable to left click on it. (however- it trid to sync this time - but i got message that said 'the ipod "jose L morales's iPod" cannot be synced. The required file cannot be found. (and no option but OK)'This time when i right-clicked on the ipod lising, it let me click on eject ipod.
i clicked- it didn't disconnect.
now i have ipod with no music and can't put any music on it.
any suggestions.
and yes- i installed the 64 bit itunes in the 64 bit program files

actually thats what i tried- but on a computer running itunes 9.
plugged ipod i. it would let me transfer music from itunes to ipod (in disk mode), but when unplugged the ipod did not retain the music.
so restored it, and downloaded updated ipod software (not itunes software.
seems to be working now.
(i hope)
jess

IPod freezes iTunes, content on ipod disappeared, how to restore?

I synced my 120gb ipod classic today (newest itunes, windows 7) and i might have pulled out the cable too quickly or something, because now my itunes says "no music" and "no movies", even though it only has 389mb free, so all my data is on there but it wont recognize it. So i tried syncing it again, but when i plugged it in itunes froze and the ipod did not appear in itunes. It does recognize it, but freezes. I tried going to my computer and it shows up. when trying to access it, explorer freezes too. i disconnected and tried explorer one more time and was able to access the folder, but it was very slow.
I am able to right click it in "my computer" and choose format. Is this safe or is there another way? i dont even want to try to reinstall itunes incase i lose all my ratings and all that stuff (15000 songs) and i dont think itunes is the problem.
When i disconnect my ipod, itunes starts responding again at once, and it shows the ipod sync screen showing that 111gb is used but all in the "OTHER" category. It says it cant sync because the necessary/required folder was not found.
I've tried different usb ports, disk mode and another vista pc but it freezes itunes there too...
And if i should format in my computer what settings to choose (exFAT, 256kb, quick format etc all that stuff)?
I'm going on vacation soon and i need it:s:S

UPDATE: i think i know what caused it: i synced my ipod touch today before i did the classic. The touch (2g, 16gb) synced fine, but when i connected the classic it froze. I had not synced the touch for months so that has to be what caused it. Any ideas what to do? How to format without itunes?

Ipod freezes itunes and won't sync

My ipod is driving me crazy. It started before I left for Iraq. It begin to sync to itunes only to freeze once it got about 3 gb's in. I would then unplug it only to find nothing on it. I sent it to my brother in the hopes he might be able to repair it. In a fit of drunken wisdom, he managed to inadvertently restore the factory settings and he sent it back to me with all sorts of movies and songs on it. I jammed out for a while only to find that slowly, the songs I used to be able to play would no longer work despite the fact they were listed on the ipod screen. I finally tried re-synching it only to have it freeze itunes three gb's in like it did before I left. I have restored it with itunes and done the restore thing with just the ipod with no results. If you have any suggestions, please help.

Have you tried doing a reset on the iPod? That may help if its the ipod directly... It may have something where it's not breaking to do the SYNC with the computer
Here's a link to help you with the reset, what ever you do just don't do the "restore" setp.. As this link does the whole 5 r's to help resovle issues...
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/

HT1386 iPod Freezes iTunes

I'm trying to sync my iPod Classic, but it keeps freezing iTunes.
I've tried restoring it to factory settings. I've tried turning off anti virus & firewall. No joy. There are lots of other devices in my household, which use the same PC and all work fine...iPod shuffle/Nano/iPhone/Touch.
So I assume the problem must be with my iPod. If restoring it to factory settings didn't work, do I assume it it dead??

ya i ha the same problem.What u can do is that un-install itunes and then reinstall it again.This vastly helps.also restart ur system once u uninstall itunes.It should/must solve it.
This happens coz of one small coprrupted fime.song etc in itunes library.if still such happens try installing the itunes in a diff drive(d/e/f etc)

IPOD Freezes Itunes and Memory is full of "Other"

I have an 80g Ipod classic and i recently updated my itunes to version 10.6.1 (7). After my latest sync, my ipod now has no music but 1/2 the memory is full with "other". I have reset my ipod several times but the music fails to appear. I cannot restore my Ipod because when I connect it to itunes, the program freezes up. The application stops responding and I have to close Itunes all together. All of my music is saved in my itunes library and I dont want to lose any of it. Someone please help!!!
I also noticed that since the most recent itunes update I am having problems connecting to the itunes store. It keeps saying check the internet connection and try again. My internet works fine but for some reason itunes will not allow me to connect to the itunes store. PLEASE HELP!!!

I have a similar problem with my 120gb classic, my ipod shows no music or any data but states that memory is full of other, I've tried everything I can think of, rebooting does nothing, connecting to pc freezes itunes and I am unable to access in disk mode either, it shows in my computer but just hangs when trying to access it, so a reformat or restore is not an option, diagnostics shows an error when checking harddrive with HDSMARTdata. I'm sorry to say that I have a feeling that our hard drives are buggered cos surely if you cant access it you can fix it. Very dissapointed with apples service as mine was an under warranty replacent which was resseting itself randomly exessively often, sometimes up to 6 times a day from when I received it, I sent it back within two days stating it had a fault only to have it sent back the next day being told its fine! It is obvious that apple have sent me a replacement ipod with a recycled hard drive which was obviously faulty from day one and now its given up the ghost, I very much regret not holding my ground and demanding a fully working replacement at the time as now I have to fork out for yet another ipod!

Corrupt iPod freezes iTunes

Basically I have this problem:
"I have a 160 GB iPod classic, that was completely full of music (about 20,000 tracks). Something happened today, and suddenly the iPod appears to be empty... there are no tracks listed in any of the menus or in the library. The ipod reads, however, as if it is full, with only 800 MB of space left. So the music is still there... it just seems to have become invisible to the iPod."
I read that only restoring the ipod can solve the issue, but it said that you have to go to iTunes and do it, but I cannot restore it because when I plug my iPod in it freezes iTunes and i have to end the task.
Is there another way to restore the iPod?

Run a file system check/recovery:
- Windows: Run a scandisk on it with "Automatically fix system errors".
- Linux: run fsck and let it do the business.
- Mac: fsck or whatever equiv is.
Now if it finds and fixes any errors iTunes should be able to pick up on it. If the iTunesDB got corrupted during this then you have two options. If that last program you used to sync with it made a backup of iTunesDB before modifying (like Winamp does) then it should be on the iPod somewhere. Otherwise iTunes restore and start resync from scratch.

IPod classic - iPod and iTunes is not recognizing music files

Here's the problem I am having:
iPod is saying there is "no music" on the iPod. Yet, when you view the settings and files it shows there to be 70GB worth of data - that is how much music I have. iTunes is also not recognizing iPod either. I also get an error stating:
"iTunes cannot read the contents of __ iPod. Go to the summary tab in iPod preferences and click RESTORE to restore this iPod to it's factory settings". It's also not reading anything from the Music database.
This is the 2nd time I've had this error in the past two months. It happened in August - I noticed it had happened as I disconnected my iPod from my computer. The first time was when I tried to eject from iTunes. It said the files were currently in use by another program (I had nothing running, what program?), so I "safely removed" as I would a USB device. The 2nd time happened similarly, though not before iTunes locked up totally and would not let me eject from there. The last time I had this problem, I also removed each file/folder manually from iPod control, to hard drive, and restored iPod, and put them back on iPod. However, this time I am not so fortunate as it gives me an error when I attempt to copy stating either the "parameter is incorrect", or "cyclic redundancy error". Some of these files that are giving me this error at some point during the process have been accessible and working fine, and other times they are not, as I successfully copied five folders worth of data without error, then after I started getting errors with the next folders, attempted to copy one of the same folders into a different directory, which THEN gave me an error. I'm not sure what's going on here, but this is proving to be quite the pain and never experienced these problems with my 60GB iPod, which I did not take nearly as good of care as I have this one - and is still working with all of my original music on it.
My question is how do I solve any of these errors, and what would be the best course of action to take? I have a 160 GB Classic iPod. Warranty expired (probably) September, and purchased from Circuit City.
*I DO NOT wish to "Restore" unless absolutely necessary as I have 18,000 songs on my iPod. Restoring this would be cumbersome, and I keep my music on my iPod as I do NOT have the hard drive space to store it with*
Please help!
-dgo

Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
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For how to restore:
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To restore from backup see:
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If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Ipod freezing itunes when being plugged in and not recognised

hi,
can anyone help me... i have an 30gb ipod and have tried everything to get it working with itunes. It works fine with others computers but with mine it just freezes itunes. As soon as i plug my pod in it freezes itunes. Sometimes if i'm lucky it starts to update it but then after 5 minutes it freezes itunes again. I have tried the 5 r's. I have installed the latest SMTP driver for xp. I have tried everything that apple have suggested on there sopport pages and nothing has helped. I have even reformatted my laptop just to get it to work but no luck.
If someone could please help me it would be much appreiated. It was a christmas present from someone close to me and don't wanna give up on it because have all ready spent many late nights on it.
Thanks

I get exactly what your describing and I noticed we are using the same laptop!!
I did not notice originally as I've got an old 40gb click wheel, about 3/4 years old. The battery is not great so assumed it may have been that but even fully charged I'm getting no luck.
I also followed the 5 r's and all the other suggestions for Ipod in My compute but not in itunes but nothing has worked. I cannot get my laptop to recognised my ipod via Itunes but it see's it fine via My Computer.
Both the Ipod and Itunes work fine without each other, Ipod plays songs fine etc and Itunes downloads music from cd etc and still performs all the usual functions but nothing else works.
I'm desperate for help as I run every day and buy a new cd each week and at this rate I'm going to have to dig out my old CD player!
Also just a point of note I looked the price to get my Ipod serviced as I figured this may help but the price quoted from apple was £160+...you can get a new 30gb for less...talk about customer explotation!!

Ipod freezing itunes, the last problem in a long list

So ill start from the beginning with the problems ive had with my ipod...
The first problem i had started maybe 6 months ago. My ipod would just stop playing when it played certain songs. Everything else worked fine, it would just stop sometimes. Then in the last few months it stopped being able to connected to a computer. Whenever i would hook it up it would just automatically eject itself. I tried hooking it up to a freinds computer and for some reason when it was hooked up to his computer it worked fine. I decided to just do a restore at the point hoping to end all my problems. The restore went fine. I started putting music back on it and i started getting error messages. The computer said that my ipod was missing the file that would allow me to sync with the computer or something like that. I tried to restore it again and it didnt change anything. In the last couple days i tried to put music on the ipod again and now it wont show at all in itunes. The ipod says its connected but when plugged in itunes just freezes.
I dont know if it makes any difference but my computer is a mac, and the computer i was able to do the restore on runs vista.
Im totally out of ideas and im not sure what my options are from here. Any and all help would be awesome.
Thanks in advance everybody!

I get exactly what your describing and I noticed we are using the same laptop!!
I did not notice originally as I've got an old 40gb click wheel, about 3/4 years old. The battery is not great so assumed it may have been that but even fully charged I'm getting no luck.
I also followed the 5 r's and all the other suggestions for Ipod in My compute but not in itunes but nothing has worked. I cannot get my laptop to recognised my ipod via Itunes but it see's it fine via My Computer.
Both the Ipod and Itunes work fine without each other, Ipod plays songs fine etc and Itunes downloads music from cd etc and still performs all the usual functions but nothing else works.
I'm desperate for help as I run every day and buy a new cd each week and at this rate I'm going to have to dig out my old CD player!
Also just a point of note I looked the price to get my Ipod serviced as I figured this may help but the price quoted from apple was £160+...you can get a new 30gb for less...talk about customer explotation!!

Song transfers from iTunes 7 to iPod freezes iTunes/iPod

I upgraded to 7 and things went fairly smoothly - I even opted for the album artwork downloads and no glitches at first...
First little glitch (and may be a clue to the big glitch below) is when I opted for the album artwork option for my 3G iPod. It provides artwork for only a tiny portion of my library, unlike what it did for my library on my mac. But whatever...
The real problem is when I manually drag and drop songs from my iTunes library to my iPod. The songs transfer successfully but then i get the whirly color swirl icon and ctrl-alt-del tells me iTunes has stopped responding. I force quit it but it is a zombie that will not die and continues to run. I finally have to yank the firewire cord from the computer (generating the error message about improperly removing a device) and then everything goes back to normal.
So I guess I have a workaround which is to transfer song files, improperly disconnect the iPod and then repeat. That doesn't seem right to me.
Thoughts, mac gods and goddesses?
iBook G4, iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 250 G iomega external HD, iSight, Airport Extreme Base Station, Airport Express

I have the 3rd-g 40G iPod. Until 7.0 I've had absolutely no problems with either iPod or iTunes (Mac is a G4, OSX) I've encountered a similar situation as yours. When trying to sync up the songs, it freezes and won't respond to force quit. I installed the 7.0.1 patch hoping the freezing would stop - nope.
I contacted an Apple Customer this morning and was told that since my iPod is 2 years old with an expired warranty, he couldn't talk me through a possible solution that may not even work. Basically the iPod is obsolete and I'd have to pay Apple Support $50 to somehow make the update work - or just go back to my original install cd (v3.1). For loyal Mac folks, this is not cool - it's a penalty for staying with the older model. Looking into going back to 6.5, but it's a sort-of bandaid, isn't it?

My video ipod freezes iTunes

I just got a MacPro with OS 10.4.8. I have iTunes 7.0.2. Every time I connect my video ipod to listen to music, it crashes after an hour or so. My clock on my computer freezes too, yet every other software is working fine. I force quit iTunes and nothing happens - it'll stay stuck until I restart my computer. This happens every time I try to listen to my music off the iPod. On another note, I can listen to music stored on my computer with iTunes with no problem. I had no problems before with my G4 with OS 10.3. What can be the problem?
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I've almost the same problem. Does your iPod seem to be crazy about the battery status?... Mine's, when I reset it, shows full battery, the very next minute, empty, and so on.
I think, it freezes iTunes and any other aplication wich is usign files stored in the iPod because the iPod Discharged.
I hope someone can help.

Brand New 30 gb iPod freezes itunes

My 5th generation video iPod will immediately freeze iTunes. The iPod will charge and display "Do Not Disconnect" but it will not transfer songs because iTunes (the newest version) has been frozen. So now I have this fully charged, empty iPod.
Why is this happening to me? The family has a new shuffle, a nano, and an older generation iPod that all work fine.

The newest software for ipod video has many glitches in it that apple is hopefully trying to fix. In the meantime, I would suggest giving them a call:
1.800.275.2273
Keep in mind that this is the US number only. If you need an apple number if your out of the US, post back and I can provide it for you.
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