Can't restore iPad, not enough space, lost Pin to get in.

Password was changed on iPad and when trying to restore to factory settings, I can't as there is not enough space. What can I do? I can't see the iPad on "Find my iPad" on iCloud either, so that is not an option.

Hello jlawre23,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Best of luck,
Mario

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Hi,
I made an itunes backup of my ipad, but now itunes doesn't want to restore it!
I always get an error saying it couldn't restore, because there isn't enough space available on the COMPUTER.
The computer I backed the ipad up to, has a 40gb hdd. The backup is about 20gb. I think itunes first makes temporary files in order to restore. But i can't manage to get enough space free, i have about 10gb free.
I tried putting it on an external hdd to restore on another computer, but it always says it couldn't copy some of the files. The drive i used is fat32. Could that be the problem, altough when looking through the backup, there isn't any file bigger than 3gb? I'm trying to get an ntfs drive and see if i can copy it to that drive. If not, how can i recover my files?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the bad english.

Hello jlawre23,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Best of luck,
Mario

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I'm trying to compile latest -ck kernel but after it gets built I get an error saying: there is not enough space to build package.
I remember that last time I was compiling the kernel, I've set-up so that /tmp is loaded in memory or something like that..
And now when I try to compile the kernel, even though I choose menuconfig I still don't get in ti, to turn it off or even check what it was.
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Last edited by Primoz (2010-06-03 11:46:33)

fukawi2 wrote:
Copy paste the actual error message and surrounding test (eg, the output from makepkg) would be helpful.
EDIT: Spelling
Yeah I tought so... Sorry for not including it in my OP, but I've just done it then and forgot to copy-paste and didn't want to do it again.
/bin/sh: line 0: echo: write error: No space left on device
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make: *** [modules] Error 2
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:: Abort? [Y/n]
aborting...
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W Stephen Wilson wrote:
Disk utility seems to be broken now, at least from my point of view.
Disk Utility's restore function never was quite good to begin with, very dumb.
You'll like Carbon Copy Cloner, it's the best, and it's smart.
Especially the huge control it gives and the fact that you can update the clones and even save states between the updates as backups.
Best of all it will copy EFI and Recovery and "fit" to upgrade to larger or smaller partitions if the data will allow it. The scheduling ability is a nice feature too.
I use it for auto-updating and/or reminding me to update clone on another partition on the boot drive and external drives every few days or weeks or so, depending upon my needs. So it's nice for the fact that I can scheduale many clones on seperate hardware.
All my clones are option key bootable, plus the files can be accessed directly by any platform that can read the HFS+ format, I'm not locked into using or restoring only to another Mac.
Freedom is good, TimeMachine is the absolute purist evil as a backup system. (just kidding, it's ok for some )
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Can't restore iPad, not enough space, lost Pin to get in.

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