All i want is a ******* working ipod!

Hi,
I’ve posted on here before about various technical issues with ipods and now I basically find myself lumbered with two that don’t work and after all the expense I can’t bear to go down the road of shelling out more extortionate amounts to have cowboys ‘fix’ them.
To cut a long story short I have two ipods – one is a 120GB ipod classic, the other is a 30GB 4th Generation, and I think both have faulty hard drives. I’ve not mistreated them, exposed them to extreme temperatures, spilt liquid on them, they’ve just developed problems respectively that I cannot fix. The classic is stuck on the red cross permanently (for a while it would work again but eventually skip and click etc). The 30GB suffered from the sad face icon but I have since got it back to the menu screen and it seems ok but when I hook up it won’t sync and comes up with error messages.
All I want is one single ipod with maybe 80GB, just one that works, but I cannot afford to buy a new one, and both are well out of warranty. I’ve had the 120GB fixed before (for £80) but it’s since broke again (once it was out of the repair firm’s warranty, typically). I’ve tried contacting repair places online about selling the units or replacing them for one working one but none have replied. I’m willing to do that, to trade the two broken ones for one working one, but I have no idea where I could try. I’ve tried e-bay more than once. Does anybody have any suggestions?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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