7.0 Killed my ipod

Every since I installed 7.0 my ipod 30gig crashed and when I try to restore it to reads ipod cannot be restored an unknown error occured (1418) Someone please help me.

Hi Dwb, THanks for your advice. I will try to find a mac-friend and try your trick in next few days.
Here is a quick update which is just blowing me away!. Looks like the new firmware 1.2.1 is feature-rich See below update.
1. I was fiddling around the diagnostic mode to see if I can bring the ipod back to life. after multiple tries to get to diag mode (Pressing the rev-select-ffwd at the same time when the apple logo shows up) - All of a sudden the IPOD comes back to life. It says select English - then I select English and then I see the full menus.
2. Downloaded Itunes 7.0.1.8 again and Itunes (On another computer ) says your IPOD is corrupted! (Looks like I am a step back - before it was only saying your IPOD needs to be restored). I selected RESTORE IPOD (Only option)
3. It is very very slowly doing its stuff Restoring IPOD. . . . . .
Maybe 1 dot every 2 minutes. I will let it do its stuff and update the group.
Basically what this tells me is 1. The HDD is fine; 2. The IPOD screen/functionality etc is fine. 3. The USB connection and sync/etc is fine.
What I believe is broken is the restore process now embedded in the ITunes 7.0+ s/w with the 1.2.1 f/w for color ipods. For some reason it screwed up my HDD the first time around. Maybe it did not completely format/partition the drive. I have my fingers crossed...2nd try ongoing
Andy
pc Windows XP

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Andy
pc Windows XP

Hi Dwb, THanks for your advice. I will try to find a mac-friend and try your trick in next few days.
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1. I was fiddling around the diagnostic mode to see if I can bring the ipod back to life. after multiple tries to get to diag mode (Pressing the rev-select-ffwd at the same time when the apple logo shows up) - All of a sudden the IPOD comes back to life. It says select English - then I select English and then I see the full menus.
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itunes recently killed two classic 160gb ipods I have within a week of each other when the new version of itunes (10?) was released. I received at different times the following errors
"can't connect to drive f:\" error
"the ipod cannot by synched. The desk can not be read or written to" error
"the ipod cannot by synched. An unknown error occured (-124)" error
"the ipod cannot by synched. The required folder cannot be found" error
"disconnect retry cancel" error
My ipod began skipping songs, it would no longer sync and itunes would freeze when the ipods were connected to my computer.
My ipod shows that it is synchronizing when it is not (I had to set it to manual sync to avoid other errors).   then itunes doesn't run or respond within windows. I eject the ipod. nothing happens. I have to physically disconnect the ipod without ejecting in itunes to get itunes to run.
I've reset the ipods. I put them in Disk Mode. I've connected them to other computers that have itunes 10. Nothing works. Nothing. I've read every discussion group, loaded every driver. Prayed to every saint.
I use an old itunes version (8.0.2.20) because I prefer it to the newer versions that don't have the    Genre     Artist     Album    list categories along the top of itunes. After declining yet another update, my two ipod classic (160 gb) would no longer synchronize, producing the errors above.   At the iPod store on Chestnut St in SF, I get a sneer and a shrug, and I am told I can get my (out of warranty) iPods repaired for $179 each + $59 for the one whose battery died when I (tried but failed to) manually load overnight the music I lost.
Apple ate $600 of my products and 60+ hours of my time. May I please just sell them back my classic ipods and buy different MP3 players? Apple is my least favorite consumer company in my history of buying products of any kind.
Has anyone experienced similar synchronization errors using windows or a Lenovo T500 or itunes 8.0.2.20 with classic 160gb ipods?   If so, would you please recommend a solution to solving my synchronization problems?    Thanks in advance.

rdf san francisco wrote:
My ipod shows that it is synchronizing when it is not (I had to set it to manual sync to avoid other errors).
No such thing as "manual sync"! You either use Sync to synchronize your iPod with iTunes (look up synhronize - or synchronise in a dictionary) or you manually manage. If you have somehow managed to manually sync, that's probably why you're having problems.
rdf san francisco wrote:
I eject the ipod. nothing happens. I have to physically disconnect the ipod without ejecting in itunes to get itunes to run.
That's definitely not a good idea. If you physically disconnect an iPod (or other storage media) from your computer while the computer is talking to it, you will probably cause corrupted files on the iPod.
The best way to recover from "iPod won't eject" is to turn off the computer, then physically disconnect the iPod. (Once the computer is turned off, you know that it cannot be talking to the iPod.
rdf san francisco wrote:
I use an old itunes version (8.0.2.20) because I prefer it to the newer versions that don't have the    Genre     Artist     Album    list categories along the top of itunes.
What?
That's simply not true!
Go (in iTunes) to and select View/Column Browser/Show Column Browser. If it is already showing or once you have it showing, go back into View/Column Browser and below the option to Hide Column Browser will be a menu for Artist, Album, Genre etc. Unfortunately, each one has to be selected one-at-a-time.
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Hello all,
First, sorry for my poor English. I am not a professional nor a technician and I could be wrong, so please correct me. There are many problems reported mainly from the PC users that their iPod can't be recognized nor mounted after the installation of the latest iPod updater. Most of them claimed that the iPod updater kills their beloved iPods. Before we jump to a conclusion, we must understand what is iPod, and how does the iPod update work.
I believe that iPod equals a basic computer and need a OS in order to communicate with the PC. Installation the Updater will format the Hard disk of the iPod and then install the simple OS, so if we open the iPod updater file, it will show a window with two buttons i.e. Restore and Update, an Update is to copy the latest OS over the old version, but the Restore will format the hard disk before it install the OS over it. And importantly, during this process, the iPod needs sufficient of power to complete the upgrade, however, the problem comes just after the format, and the PC's USB (only 2 will work not 1.1) does not supply the stable power,even some cases that iPod does not get charge in the half way of installatin (a proper installation, you will see a running bar showing on the iPod screen just after the format), so you can imagine a hard disk got format but only got an uncompleted OS, of course, the iPod would not get recognized and mounted, and do not manage to communicate with the computer. At this stage the iPod will show a Sad iPod icon, a folder with exclamaiton points or a battery charging icon.
So, what would you do when it reach at this stage, a Reset would not work, and you would not able to do the Restore as the iPod is totally unrecognized by the computer.
Therefore, is there anyway to solve this problem, in my opinion and from my past experience, the answer is "yes", the simple way is to put your iPod in Disk Mode, when it plug to the computer, it will show as an external Hard Disk, you must fix it by doing a format (RESTORE would not work at this stage as it still can't recognized and mounted), in Mac we can use "Disk Utility" but the XP would not allow you to do the format in FAT32. After the formatting, replug the iPod with the computer, then it can be mounted and allow you to do the RESTORE.
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2. To have a test and make sure the PC's USB works properly. You can use the iPod or a PDA, and just make sure it got charged.
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Hello all,
First, sorry for my poor English. I am not a professional nor a technician and I could be wrong, so please correct me. There are many problems reported mainly from the PC users that their iPod can't be recognized nor mounted after the installation of the latest iPod updater. Most of them claimed that the iPod updater kills their beloved iPods. Before we jump to a conclusion, we must understand what is iPod, and how does the iPod update work.
I believe that iPod equals a basic computer and need a OS in order to communicate with the PC. Installation the Updater will format the Hard disk of the iPod and then install the simple OS, so if we open the iPod updater file, it will show a window with two buttons i.e. Restore and Update, an Update is to copy the latest OS over the old version, but the Restore will format the hard disk before it install the OS over it. And importantly, during this process, the iPod needs sufficient of power to complete the upgrade, however, the problem comes just after the format, and the PC's USB (only 2 will work not 1.1) does not supply the stable power,even some cases that iPod does not get charge in the half way of installatin (a proper installation, you will see a running bar showing on the iPod screen just after the format), so you can imagine a hard disk got format but only got an uncompleted OS, of course, the iPod would not get recognized and mounted, and do not manage to communicate with the computer. At this stage the iPod will show a Sad iPod icon, a folder with exclamaiton points or a battery charging icon.
So, what would you do when it reach at this stage, a Reset would not work, and you would not able to do the Restore as the iPod is totally unrecognized by the computer.
Therefore, is there anyway to solve this problem, in my opinion and from my past experience, the answer is "yes", the simple way is to put your iPod in Disk Mode, when it plug to the computer, it will show as an external Hard Disk, you must fix it by doing a format (RESTORE would not work at this stage as it still can't recognized and mounted), in Mac we can use "Disk Utility" but the XP would not allow you to do the format in FAT32. After the formatting, replug the iPod with the computer, then it can be mounted and allow you to do the RESTORE.
In addition, I find an interesting point is, if your iPod formatted with a Mac, you will have better chance to be mounted with a PC, even your iPod does not complete the process of the installation of the iPod updater, and a PC formatted iPod will be likely to be fixed by a Mac as well.
How should we do before the update of the lastest software, for the XP user please do the following:-
1. Go to the system restore and create a check point in order to revert back to the previous version of the iPod updater, or do the back up using the 3rd party software such as Ghost or Go Back.
2. To have a test and make sure the PC's USB works properly. You can use the iPod or a PDA, and just make sure it got charged.
3. Have your iPod a full charge before the installation of the iPod updater
So, who is the main killer for the iPod?
For further infomation please read the following link - which wrote by a groups of great people - thank your guys
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68ae8668

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I think I killed my iPod Nano by trying to install iPodLinux on it.

Copied and pasted from my topic on GameFAQs message boards
So I tried to install iPodLinux on my iPod to play pong, watch videos, you know, all that stuff.
I went through the install fine, I set it to load the iPodLinux as default bootup or whatever. I unhooked the iPod and tried to boot it up, and it just brought me to a screen that said "www.apple.com/support/ipod" with a picture of a folder and a ! by it.
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Then I restarted the computer and tried again, made sure the USB was properly in, the 'Do not disconnect the iPod' screen came up, tried to load the iPod Updater again to restore it, same results.
Sooo... If I can't get it mounted in iPod Updater to restore it, what should I do?
Thanks to anyone who helps, and I'll promise never to mess with electronics ever again, because they always win.
Thanks!
What I tried
Okay, Update:
I go into My Computer to format it, and then I do this
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/4430/uhoh7pu.jpg
As you can see, it didn't work.
I downloaded the the newest iPod Updater from Apple's site and it let me click Restore on it, which got my hopes up, then shattered them when it came up with "Can't mount iPod.".
I then also did what davidd said. Uninstalled the iPod software (not iTunes, just the other thing that was on the CD).
Plugged the Nano back in and tried to go to iPod updater and still, didn't work.
So it's still not working, anymore ideas?
Any other suggestions?
All above is copied and pasted from a topic on GameFAQs regarding this problem... why did I install iPodLinux? Well, I saw a topic on digg about it, and it said if it didn't work I could always just click the Restore button and restore everything, but if you read above, that's not an option or me anymore.
So, did trying to install iPodLinux on my Nano void my warrenty and I'll just have to live with it, or is there ANY way I can somehow restore it?
Thanks to anyone who helps me.
Windows XP

Wow, thank you so much!
Turns out there was a topic on the forums there with guy having same problem and they linked him to topics that saved his iPod too.
Thank you so much, it works now

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