40GB ipod photo hard disk issue

As of a month ago, my 6 mo. old ipod photo began to act funny. It's not completely malfunctioning like others I've read about in the forum. But when I manually select a song further down in a playlist or in a different playlist, the ipod begins to vibrate enough that it was noticeable. This does not happen when it plays songs in order from a playlist. It only happens when manually selecting songs. It also takes a couple minutes to initially start up when turned on and at times can take up to 5 minutes to be recognized by itunes. When I first started using my ipod none of these events occurred. But they have become increasingly a problem. Is this a problem with the hard disk that I should have looked at? Or is it something that the next firmware update will take care of?

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Using ipod as hard disk

I use my ipod's hard disk to transfer music from my office pc to my home pc. I decided not to delete the iTunes Music Folder from the ipod's hd in case my PC's hd crashed. Is this recommended? I only have 6GB of music downloaded so space is not an issue (for now).
Also, I like to know if using ipod during flights is ok? I know that using cellphones are not allowed but how abt ipod?

Hi Larien,
Im sorry im not going to answer your question as i dont know the answer!! But, im in a similar situatio to yourself, i want to transfer my i-tunes from my parents desk top to my new laptop and was wondering if its an easy process to do? as iv got over 1000 songs in my i-tunes and dont want to risk losing them all!!!
Pete.

40GB iPod Photo came with FW cable, doesn't work with FW cable

I have a 40GB iPod photo that I love. I bought another (used) one for my wife, being careful to get the identical model so we could share things such as docks, cables, etc.
Her iPod works fine with the USB cable, but will only charge with the FW cable -- no computer can see her iPod through FW. I've reset the iPod, updated it with the iPod updater, but nothing. When I connect her iPod to any of my Macs (her 12" iBook, my 12" PowerBook, my G5 iMac) with FW, the iPod appears to be charging, but is not detected by the computer, nor are any of the iPod controls usable. It doesn't go to the "do not disconnect" screen, but simply freezes where it is until the FW cable is disconnected.
Specifics: both iPod Photos are the 40GB model M9585LL, version 1.2.1. The 2nd one CAME WITH a FW cable, which is why I'm puzzled that it won't work with it. Help?

Here is some info for the pinout for the iPod.
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/04/zen-vision-m-video-cable-other-4 pole-35mm-pinouts.php
You need to find the pinout of the camera cable you have.
Probably be easier to get get an AV cable with a 3.5mm plug to (whatever fits into your TV) cable.
Usually, you simply have to swap the Red and the Yellow for it to work properly.

IPod intact; hard disk erased!

Yikes...long story short: the helpful people at Dell had me completely erase and reformat my hard disk. Everything was basically inaccessible at the time, so I couldn't save anything anyway.
Problem is this: the iPod mini is about half full. I'm afraid that since there is zero in my library, when I go to add an album I'll lose everything on the iPod. Am I worrying needlessly? Advice? Suggestions? Commiseration?
Thanks!!
hikinghigh

hikinghigh,
These links will give you several methods of recovering whatever songs remain on your iPod; some free, some third-party software, some more comprehensive for restoring playlists, ratings, playcounts, etc. Read them and their associated links before deciding on a strategy that works for you. There are many various third-party software programs that will offer a more robust process, or an easier GUI. Do a Google search for them if the links below leave you wanting…
Don King Resurrected: Deleted files from hard drive (free user steps – music recovery only)
MacMuse: Computer Crashed (free user steps – music recovery only)
Copying music from iPod to computer (a primer on various methods and software)
Copying Songs from Your iPod to a Mac or PC (resource for 3rd party software)
iPodRip Software
PodUtil Software
XPlay (Software For Music Recovery &/or Cross-Platform Functionality)
XPlay Photo Browser (For recovering Photos)
After recovering your song files, strongly consider developing a thorough backup strategy for just this type of situation.
You need at least three sets of your music:
-- One full set on the PC within iTunes (on internal HD or ExHD)
-- One full set on an separate external backup medium (CD/DVD/ExHD/other)
-- One (full or partial) set on the iPod
Music files on just the iPod and the computer is not considered having any backup. If you cannot store your complete music files on the computer, then create and maintain two external sets.
Backup both the music files and the Library database file (iTunes Library.itl). What are the iTunes Library files?
Here is a post on developing a backup strategy: http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=394618&messageID=1263275

After hard disk crash: How can I get my fotos from iPod to hard disk?

As I said my hard disk crashed. (iPod 3.gen. )
So now I have my photos only on the iPod but I can't get them on my hard disk.
(If I would sync my iPod they would be deleted...)
Do you have/know a good programme (free), that copies them back on the hard disk??
Thanks a lot
truckdriver64

f you have full resolution copies of the photos on the iPod have a look here, it's completely free: Apple Knowledge Base article - Use Disk Mode to copy photos from iPod
If not, there are a few programs out there for recovering photos from an iPod, have a look at the ones below. I don't know of any "free" ones but if your photos are of value to you then paying for a program makes perfect sense. If you search the internet you can find more. Just be aware that what you'll be recovering will be photos optimised for the iPod so they won't be the same quality as the original full resolution versions:
iPodPhotoCopy Windows only
CopyPodPhoto Windows only
Tansee iPod Transfer Photo Windows only
iPod Photo Liberator Mac & Windows
TouchCopy Mac and Windows Versions (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)

Hard Disk issue with Toshiba Satellite P755-S5390

Well, I'm at my wit's end on this one so after several months of searching for an answer I'm presenting this one to my fellow Toshiba users.
I have a Toshiba Satellite P755 that I purchased around March of 2012 so it is well out of warranty unfortunately. I'm having an odd issue that could just be a faulty hard drive but I wanted to see if anyone had any similar experiences with their Toshibas that might lead this to be a recurring issue with other Toshibas.
The first symptoms my laptop experienced were the computer locking up and the hard drive light staying lit constantly. This first happened right after I was using WIn 7 disk management to shrink the main partition so I could create a second partition. The exact step this happened at was when I had already shrunk the main partition and had just finished creating the second partition. It hadn't even refreshed the disk management screen when it just locked up completely.
I left it locked up for almost a half hour and then did a forced shutdown and when it came back up it was really slow and the hard drive light was staying lit constantly. Eventually it wouldn't even start up and the drive light still stayed on constantly (not even blinking, just solid on).
My first thought was obviously hard disk failure so I grabbed a spare that should have worked perfectly as it was just harvested from a perfectly fine little netbook. I popped the drive in and reinstalled Win 7 and it worked fine...for a few weeks. Then it did the exact same thing except this time it eventually just wouldn't recognize any boot media. I cursed my bad luck in having two failed hard drives and used an older one that I had spare that, as I recall, worked fine when I harvested it from the old laptop it came out of. It worked again...for a couple of days. Then it did the same thing as the first (hard drive light staying lit, not responding hardly at all). I even hooked all these little laptop hard drives up to my file servers SATA ports and they loaded fine and I was able to back stuff up.
My dilemma here is that I know it could just be that I was using old hard drives and maybe by some chance they all failed because they were old but I'd hate to buy a new hard drive if that's not the problem.
Has anyone had any similar experiences with their Toshibas? I even tried testing the RAM and even removing one module at a time. I also tried pulling the battery and running it straight from the charger thinking maybe it was shorting something out.
As an additional note. One interesting thing that happened after the third drive went bad was that I plugged in the original hard drive thinking I could further troubleshoot and it worked perfectly fine for about a month. It then proceeded to do the same thing again. That's about where I am now. The only other thing I did was yesterday when I pulled the battery and tried it. It did respond very well for at least long enough to almost finish the reinstall to factory partitions but it failed at the last minute and rebooted. It then loaded the Windows startup screen and locked up with the hard drive light staying lit solid.
Sorry for the novel but I wanted to make sure all my troubleshooting steps were documented so no one suggested those. My last step is to pop in another used drive and install Ubuntu and see what happens then.
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Satellite P755-S5390 Specifications
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justinmbarnes wrote:....I popped the drive in and reinstalled Win 7 and it worked fine...for a few weeks.
How did you reinstall Win 7 on the replacement drive? Did you use the the Toshiba Recovery Disks you should have created as per the directions on page 74 of your User's Guide, following the recovery directions on page 76, and return your unit to its factory default out-of-the-box setup? What happens if you return your unit to its factory default set up? This is considered the gold standard test on whether you have a hardware problem/failure, as opposed to a driver-software-conflict problem.
You seem quite familiar with Windows Disk Management software, yet you don't mention running the built in disk 'Error-checking' utility.
If you believe you may be suffering from some kind of hard drive problems, this would seem a logical step. You can access this utility by clicking on 'Start' -> click on 'Computer' -> right click on 'C:' drive -> click on 'Properties' -> click on the 'Tools' tab -> under 'Error-checking' click the 'Check now...' button -> put check marks on both the 'Automatically fix....' and 'Scan for...' options -> click the 'Start' button. The utility will inform you it can't be run now and ask if you want to schedule for the next restart, agree and restart your computer. Depending on the size of your hard drive and the problems the utility may encounter this could take from 20 minutes to several hours.
Let us know what happens. Good luck.
Mike

Lenovo Hard Disk Issue - Felt bad about the service

This email is regards to the complaint on Lenovo All in desktop i purchased which is still there in warranty.
I purchased All in one desktop on 25/02/2014 in one of the outlet of Reliance Digital, Bangalore,India.
Below is the detail of the product -
SN : CSxxxxxxxx
Product Family : C240
Machine type : 10113.
I was getting "Error 1962 : Operating system not found" . and raised a request to rectify the problem. The service engineer came with new hard drive for replacing it. I asked for my data and they told it's customer responsibility to make the data back up. He himself gave the hard disk which was there with hard disk and asked me to back up with some third party vendor.
I visited Cadons, Bangalore for data back up and after checking Cadons engineer told hard drive is completely dead better contactLenovo again so that they will repair it and give one it is repaired i he told he will be able to make data back up.
I again called customer care executive and told that third party vendor was not able to make the data back because of hard drive failure but they are refusing to repair hard drive and each time i am receiving a call from service engineer and are just trying to close the ticket at the earliest by replacing the hard drive. No one is bothering about repairing the hard drive and helping me to take my data back up.
For your reference :Ticket number : TVSE/IDEA/7006373733/
I also sent email to [email protected] from whom i am receiving the emails stating that they will resolve the issue but no action was taken from last 20 days.
I just wanted to check whether Lenovo execut\ives are really meant to serve customer issues? If somebody is there please let me know. Otherwise i will just throw this harddisk and say good bye to Lenovo and it's products in future.
Regards,
Bhuvanesh K,
+91-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Admin Edit; s/n & private information edited to prevent them being abused

bhuvanesh_k wrote:
This email is regards to the complaint on Lenovo All in desktop i purchased which is still there in warranty.
I purchased All in one desktop on 25/02/2014 in one of the outlet of Reliance Digital, Bangalore,India.
Below is the detail of the product -
SN : CSxxxxxxxx
Product Family : C240
Machine type : 10113.
I was getting "Error 1962 : Operating system not found" . and raised a request to rectify the problem. The service engineer came with new hard drive for replacing it. I asked for my data and they told it's customer responsibility to make the data back up. He himself gave the hard disk which was there with hard disk and asked me to back up with some third party vendor.
I visited Cadons, Bangalore for data back up and after checking Cadons engineer told hard drive is completely dead better contactLenovo again so that they will repair it and give one it is repaired i he told he will be able to make data back up.
I again called customer care executive and told that third party vendor was not able to make the data back because of hard drive failure but they are refusing to repair hard drive and each time i am receiving a call from service engineer and are just trying to close the ticket at the earliest by replacing the hard drive. No one is bothering about repairing the hard drive and helping me to take my data back up.
For your reference :Ticket number : TVSE/IDEA/7006373733/
I also sent email to [email protected] from whom i am receiving the emails stating that they will resolve the issue but no action was taken from last 20 days.
I just wanted to check whether Lenovo execut\ives are really meant to serve customer issues? If somebody is there please let me know. Otherwise i will just throw this harddisk and say good bye to Lenovo and it's products in future.
Regards,
Bhuvanesh K,
+91-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Dear Bhuvanesh K,
Sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. Our team has been trying to get in touch with you at the provided number, however, there was no response. Request you to let us know a convenient time to call.
Warm Regards,
Reliance Digital

Ipod as hard disk - Why am I not able to see the whole file?

I'm using my 80 gig 5th gen ipod as a hard disk for the first time. I've dragged a 32 KB text file to the ipod. When I scroll though the file all is great...but I'm not able to see the whole file? It's like I get one page and that's all. Any ideas to help me?

Do you mean the Notes function? If so, the file size per note is, I believe, 4k. Therefore, you'd need to break up a 32k file into several parts or it will be truncated.

Are there any cables available to hook up an ipod photo hard drive to an external hard drive?

my ipod photo is broken but the hard drive seems in good shape. I no longer have the original computer with original playlist but would like to save the songs...any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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no the airport express does not support discs
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Ipod nano hard disk

How do I delete songs from my ipod hard disk?
for some reason when I loaded in the software for my I pod I loaded all the songs in my computer--109 of them on to the Ipod how do I get them deleted???
Message was edited by: buzz345

So you don't want all of the songs that are on your computer to be on your iPod? Is that correct?
You have 2 options.
1. In the iPod Summary Window, go to the Music tab. Then, change the iPod to Automatically Update only Selected Playlists. That is if you want only those playlists to be on the iPod.
2. Manually Update the iPod. This would let you manually delete songs off the iPod. Check this out:
Managing Songs Manually
I hope this helps!

IPod Classic Hard Disk Ruined

To whom this may concern -
I am a long time Mac user. I love Macs, and I may always. But I've run into a huge problem now. I purchased an iPod Classic for my boyfriend. He lives in Argentina. He was charging it, and it fell on the floor. Nothing was damaged on the outside, but when he turns it on there's a big X. He went to the website to try and reboot it, but it didn't work. Now he's gone to the Mac Store in Cordoba Argentina. They took it apart (for a fee), and told him that he needs to pay over $200 to get it fixed. It cost me $190 to buy it here... mind you. They said that the Hard Disk is ruined.
Here's my question. The iPod is still under warranty. SINCE, you people say you have the best customer service, (which you DO NOT indicate WHERE you have the best customer service), I was wondering if he sends me their report of his iPod, (including his serial number and things), I could get him his hard disk, and we replace it there. He cannot send me his iPod for less than $70. So sending it to me in the States is not an option.
I am very upset at Mac. I thought they were the best for service and products. But his iPod broke, just by falling once. AND they won't fix it for free for him in Argentina. This is frustrating. If you can get me a Hard Disk for his iPod (i can show you anything you want to see, their report, his serial number, whatever you want) my opinions of Mac will be much better.
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They do have the highest rated customer support and they are good at honoring the warranty, which covers manufacturing defects. But a warranty is not an insurance policy and does not cover accidental damage. And the number of accidents it has doesn't matter. If you buy a car and get into just one accident, good luck with having the dealer fix the damage under your warranty. Apparently the fall was far enough to crash the heads on the hard drive.
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External Hard Disk Issue

I have a Seagate Free Agent external USB hard disk (250 GB) which I had reformatted to FAT32. This draws power from the USB port and seems to work perfectly on my Linux (Fedora Core 8) and Windows (XP) boxes. On the Mac, when it is plugged in, it asks me whether it should Initialize, Ignore or Eject. I choose "Ignore" and then go on to mount it from the terminal using the commands sudo mkdir /Volume/FA sudo mount /dev/disk2s1 /Volume/FA. The device name has to be found out first using Disk Utility. After it is mounted, I can read, write, delete etc. without any problem.
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I have no issues with smaller FAT32 pen drives which show up on my Desktop a few seconds after I plug them in.
Thanks

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Use iPod as hard disk & listen to music?

Is it possible to use your iPod as a Hard Disk & be able to listen to the music on it?
Like, if you wanna save your music JUST INCASE your computer crashes ALL OF A SUDDEN, but you still want to be able to listen to music and enjoy your iPod & not just have it sitting there as an extra hard drive.
Does anybody know if it is possible to do both?
And if so, How?
5th Generation 30GB Windows XP

Wrong.
Of course you can use your ipod as a hard disk as well as using it as an iPod to play music. There is nothing wrong with this at all.
There is one downside. The content will take up twice as much space on your iPod.
You'll need to sync your content to the iPod using itunes -AND- copy it manually to another folder using the iPod as a hard disk.
So, the answer really is YES, you can use your iPod as music player, and a hard disk for all of your content as long as your library takes up less than half the total capacity of your iPod hard drive.
Additioanlly, there are ways to copy the content off your iPod even when it's not being used as a hard disk. It requires third-party software, but it's possible. Thats another topic altogether.

Enabling ipod as hard disk with no computer

Hi,
I am currently away from home for 4 months and have no access to my mac or any other at present. I wanted to put all the pics and videos from my digital camera onto my ipod in their raw form (tiff, raw, but not jpeg) but I believe this is not possible unless the ipod has been enabled to use as a hard disk, I didn't know this before I left home.
Is there any way I can do this without a computer? Or would it be possible to go into an Apple shop (perhaps in Sydney as I will be passing through) and have it done there?
I apologise in advance as I will be slow to get back to any replies as I am having to use internet cafes often with dial up connection.
Thanks for any help.

Yes.
Hold the MENU and SELECT (Center) buttons until you see the Apple logo to reset the iPod. THen, while the Apple logo is displayed, press and hold the PLAY and SELECT buttons to enter Disk Mode.
Reset the iPod again to exit Disk Mode.
Cheers!
-Bryan

X230 Hard disks issue when deploying in corporate environment

We got a batch of X230 laptops recently and i've cam across an odd problem. Wuhile deploying win7 I hit some problems with the disks. We wont be using the SSD disk that comes preinstalled so w will install Win7 on the large disk. Heres my problem. some laptops have differing hard disks. when diskpart is run on one the SSD is shown as Disk 0., when its run on the other with differetn disks its shown as disk 1
Laptop 1
Seagate - 298GB disk (ST320LT007)
SanDisk SSD - 22GB -
Run Diskpart
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Laptop 2
HGST - 298GB (HST725032A7E630)
Samusng SSD - 22GB (MZMPA024HMCD)
Run Diskpart
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Disk 1 : 22GB
Obviously this will be a problem when running a deploy job. It will require 2 build jobs and the tech will have to enter the BIOS to see what hard disk is installed. Any idea why this is like this. Am I able to change this in the BIOS!

Guys,
Several months on now has anyone found an answer to this?
I have exactly the same issue where I want to be able to choose which classification each disk goes to.
I understand that by design you want to abstract the paths and LUNs etc from the users, even the admins, but you need to be able to say "this disk is Gold, this disk is Bronze".
Ideally you would be able to change the classification while the machine is running and have that change trigger a storage migration. VMM could then choose the best path for that classification and migrate that disk while leaving the rest of the VM where
it is.
I understand you can perform a storage migration after deployment and in 2012 R2 you can specify different paths per disk but I really don't want myself or my other admins worrying about paths, just classifications. Within storage migration you cant just
specify a classification and this approach seems to go against the very design.
Basically I don't think Microsoft has thought this one through very well.
Any new suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael

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