Corruption and not restoring,

Have read several issues like this and have tried all suggested methods to no avail.
Video Ipod 30gig which contains a folder I use to carry uni work and other such stuff seems to be the problem [named Hard Drive]. The ipod on the move works fine. When plugged into a mac (at uni) I am told to format the ipod due to corrupt files, when in my p.c at home it works fine but the folder housing my work [hard drive] does not respond. I can click it, but I cannot open it, browse it, copy or delete it, after several mins of freezing it just ignores anything ever happened.
Both Mac and P.C itunes restore last forever, with no porgress being made after several hours.
Have managed to back up music and photos so restore only stands to lose some work and movies, which I can replace, I just cannot get it to restore.
Many thanks.

I have exactly the same problem, I have sent it off to apple, they said it was working fine sent it back, I then conected it to my computer and it just says it is corrupted and will not restore?!?! Apple have let me down on this!

Similar Messages

HT1766 I cannot backup my iphone, it keeps telling me the backup is corrupt and not compatible. All forums have suggested I delete the last backup but that was months ago and I'm afraid if I do that and it still doesn't work, I won't have anything saved

I cannot backup my iphone, it keeps telling me the backup is corrupt and not compatible. All forums have suggested I delete the last backup but that was months ago and I'm afraid if I do that and it still doesn't work, I won't have anything saved. Can anyone help?

Try to connect in recovery mode, explained in this article:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
Before that, back up your device, explained here:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
How to back up your data and set up as a new device
You can check your warranty status here:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

IPod is corrupt: will not restore, constantly resets itself

I have had my iPod 60GB for 2 years now and it just started going crazy recently. First it started skipping songs (not playing them) then when I connected it to my computer it said my iPod was corrupt and needed restored. So I clicked on restore and it keeps giving me an error message (1429) and says it cannot restore the iPod because it is corrupt. I've tried everything on the error message help page and nothing works. I tried changing the USB it was plugged into, and that didn't work. It says Windows couldn't install the software for my new drive. Now my iPod is setting here constantly restarting itself, over and over and over the Apple logo screen is coming on for a few seconds, then shutting off and back on and so on.
One of my friends said he had one that did the same and he had to send it in and get a new one- I certainly hope I will NOT have to purchase another one, because I certainly feel that for $280 you should get something that should work or can be easily fixed. If this is the case, and I don't get a new one, I will certainly NEVER purchase an Apple product again for sure.
I really like my iPod so I hope there's a way to fix it. I cannot get it to shut off now though! It keeps turning itself on and off. I am using a PC with Windows XP Serv. Pack 3 if that helps.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!!
Message was edited by: showjumper926

Virtually same problem. ipod shows playing a song, but I can hear the hard drive clicking. I tried to restore, but says ipod is corrupt. This is unreal as it is not long out of warranty and i paid way too much for this to happen. I have only used it about three months off anf on since I purchased it. It is stuck and will not shut off just the hard drive is turning. I placed it on a magnet in my car, and was wondering if that caused the problem.
Any help would be great as mor than one individual has this same issue.

TS3694 Apple 4s stuck in a loop and not restoring or updating Help please!!!!

Apple 4s stuck in loggo loop and not restoring or updating. I have tryed all the recomended stuff all the youtube video EVRYTHING!!!!! I cant think of any reasone for it to not work .one minuet it was playing music on my sterio and the next this loggo loop.   HELP PLEASE!! **** YOU APPLE!!!!

Maybe:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
Or
Restore loop (being prompted to restore again after a restore successfully completes)
Troubleshoot your USB connection. If the issue persists, out-of-date or incorrectly configured third-party security software may be causing this issue. Please follow Troubleshooting security software issues. .
Next try placing in DFU mode and then restoring.
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
Then try restoring on another computer.
Last, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

IPod is corrupted and not recognized by iTunes

When I plug my iPod into my computer and open iTunes, it does not appear anywhere in iTunes. I have tried this on another computer too, but the same problem happens. Whenever I plug it in and open iTunes, an icon in the tray pops up saying that iTunes.exe is corrupt and unreadable. I have tried using an older Apple Updater, but it said something about it not being able to update the iPod. When I have my iPod on, everything works fine, but when I plug it into my computer it won't let me restore or sync my iPod. My question is: is there any way to restore my iPod without iTunes on a Windows computer?
My iPod has worked fine before, this is the first time that this has happened.

If you can see your iPod in my computer, right click
on it and reformat it (FAT32, not a quick format) and
then Restore it in iTunes.
can u do this on any ipod? it will not showup on my computer..

Robohelp corrupt and not saving

I work with one other person on a shared robohelp project. We continue to get notices that files are corrupt and have deleted the lbd file in order to open the project. The problem: we used to be able to work in the project at the same time and when one person would save the project would save. Now we have to shut down the application in order to see any of the changes and we are routinely loosing information. In addition, we have a htt master page that is in the project folder, but disappeared from the project files that display in robohelp. We have tried to re-import, but with no avial. Please help!

Hi again
RoboSource control is one package of a few different packages you could use, sure.
I've never used RoboSource Control with my projects. I have used Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) but never integrated with RoboHelp.
Just a personal note on this. Even today, I would likely opt to use Microsoft VSS and use it separate from RoboHelp. I would elect not to integrate it with RoboHelp. But that's just me. I like to isolate layers so that when things go wrong (and they always do) it is easier to identify where the problem lies. For example, say you just implemented RoboSource control. Suddenly no updates are occurring to topics. Hmmm, is the problem with RoboHelp? Is it with RoboHelp and the connection to RoboSource? Is it with RoboSource itself? But that's just me and the way I would tackle it. If I had only one other author, I probably wouldn't even go down the source control route.
Cheers... Rick
Helpful and Handy Links
RoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Begin learning RoboHelp HTML 7 or 8 within the day - $24.95!
Adobe Certified RoboHelp HTML Training
SorcerStone Blog
RoboHelp eBooks

I recieved anipod touch from my brother and it was running a little slow, so i restored it to factory settings but all it did was erase everything and not restore it.

When it's plugged in to itunes it keeps saying it needs to be restored, so i restore it but the same thing happens. It just never restores. Any hints/advice

Maybe:
Restore loop (being prompted to restore again after a restore successfully completes)
Troubleshoot your USB connection. If the issue persists, out-of-date or incorrectly configured third-party security software may be causing this issue. Please follow Troubleshooting security software issues. .
Next try placing in DFU mode and then restoring.
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
Then try restoring on another computer.
Last, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

HELP my Ipod keeps on saying it's corrupt and wont restore

My Ipod won't restore by pressing both the middle button and the menu button. It say's it's corrupt. I think it might of died because i've had it for one year and a couple of months. If it has, what can I do with it?

"My Ipod won't restore by pressing both the middle button and the menu button"
That's not how you restore an iPod, that's the procedure for resetting. Have a look at this page for instructions on restoring: Restoring iPod to factory settings with iTunes 7

IPhone backup is corrupted and not visible in ITunes. Can I recover the data on it?

Hi,
I am a Win 7 user. I recently upgraded my iphone 4 from ios 4 to ios 5. It seems that the upgrade process deletes all the data and then it recovers it from ITunes or ICloud backup. I did have only one backup and it was on ITunes. However, during the backup process I had some kind of error telling me that the backup is corrupted or something like that. Unfortunately I didnt pay enough attention to the error in order to quote it here. What happenned next is that the IPhone was stuck on the Conect to ITunes screen even thou it was already connected. Every time I was connecting the Iphone to ITunes, it was syncing, but it kept being stuck on that Connect to ITunes screen. To resolve this, I tried the Restore from a backup option by right clicking on the Iphone in ITunes. There I had only one choice of backup which was with no date. This solved the Connect to ITunes problem and the IPhone was up and running.
The next problem was that once I configured the IPhone, I had no data on it - no pictures, no contacts, no anything apart programs I have downloaded previously from AppStore.
A friend of mine assisted me, and showed me where the backups are stored on win 7 systems:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
My understanding is that you have as many backups as folders in the Backup folder above. I don't see however one of the folders in the ITunes Restore from Backup list. It is the largest and oldest folder - nearly 2GB. All the rest is like 30-40mb. I believe that any chance I may have to restore any information from my IPhone is by restoring this backup and being able to upload it to the IPhone or read it somehow. My friend discovered that the .plist files are missing in this folder. In particular 4 files: info.plist, manifest.mbdb, manifest.plist and status.plist.
We tried to cheat a bit by copying these files from one of the other backup folders. We also renamed some of the codes in one or two of the files, like the name of the folder, data and hour in info.plist. It didnt work. This folder remains unvisible by ITunes and therefore I cannot use it as backup.
Your help is much appreciated for finding a solution on that one,
Peppy

gdgmacguy wrote:
If your backup is corrupted you cannot retrieve data from it.
I've been working on a tool that repairs most iPhone (iPad, iPod Touch) backups that iTunes reports as corrupted -- it seems to be working fairly well for people we've had using it lately! If someone stumbles on this post and wants to try it out, the program is Decipher Backup Repair, and you can try it here:
http://deciphertools.com/download-decipher-backup-repair.html
As other people in the thread have mentioned, you can also try some third-party programs to read the backup and pull-out the important data so you at least have it in some capacity. We have one on the website I've linked above, in addition to the repair software.
I hope this helps someone who finds this thread! Dealing with iTunes backups can be really painful, and I know it's horribly depressing to wait through a restore to get the corrupted message after SEVERAL minutes.
(Note: As I mentioned, I work on the backup fixing software I linked to, so I stand to benefit, financially or otherwise, from the links I've provided.)

Ipod Showing as hard disk but files corrupt and not showing in itunes

my ipod has been acting funny recently but skiping multiple songs and none of the album arts showing up. i plugged it into my laptop just not and it said i need to restore my ipod. i restored it but that did nothing to my ipod. all of the songs were on there still and nothing had been taken off. i tried the same on my other computer but this has not even showed my ipod up in itunes. it is being shown in disk mode even though i didn't select the disk mode option. i tried to click on the files on the ipod but they were being shown as corrupt. i have tried all troubleshooting but no help. please help me. thankyou

Try to restore your iPod from iTunes.
If this does not fix the problem, try the free trial version of CopyTrans Doctor http://www.copytrans.net/doctor.php

Controlfile has corrupted and not able to open up the database. Very urgent

Hi All,
I am working on 11gR1 database on linux environment and suddenly the DB went down. I look at the alert log and i am following that guidelines, but i am not able to put the database in mount state and it is thronging error message. Please suggest me in correct way. This is very high priority for me.
I have done below steps.
1.set the environment through . oraenv
2. export ORACLE_SID
3. SQL>startup nomount
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 4943876096 bytes
Fixed Size 2143944 bytes
Variable Size 2617248056 bytes
Database Buffers 2281701376 bytes
Redo Buffers 42782720 bytes
SQL>alter database mount;
alter database mount
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00214: control file '/u02/oradata/beacondp/control02.ctl' version 390158 inconsistent with file '/u01/oradata/beacondp/control01.ctl' version 390097
4. SQL>alter system set control_files='/u02/oradata/beacondp/control03.ctl' scope=spfile;
System altered.
SQL>startup restrict
ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first
5. SQL>alter database mount;
alter database mount
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00214: control file '/u02/oradata/beacondp/control02.ctl' version 390158 inconsistent with file '/u01/oradata/beacondp/control01.ctl' version 390097
alert log Information:
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 9261
Current log# 3 seq# 9261 mem# 0: /u02/oradata/beacondp/redo03.log
Tue Sep 13 15:00:14 2011
********************* ATTENTION: ********************
The controlfile header block returned by the OS
has a sequence number that is too old.
The controlfile might be corrupted.
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO START UP THE INSTANCE
without following the steps below.
RE-STARTING THE INSTANCE CAN CAUSE SERIOUS DAMAGE
TO THE DATABASE, if the controlfile is truly corrupted.
In order to re-start the instance safely,
please do the following:
(1) Save all copies of the controlfile for later
analysis and contact your OS vendor and Oracle support.
(2) Mount the instance and issue:
ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE;
(3) Unmount the instance.
(4) Use the script in the trace file to
RE-CREATE THE CONTROLFILE and open the database.
Please let me know, how i need to proceed. Major problem is i am not able to put the db in mount state. I have both spfile and pfile.
Thanks in advance.

user13162661 wrote:
Thanks Pavan for yoour response, but how can i find, which is good copy of the controlfile?
Now i have 3 controlfiles in spfile or in pfile, Can i directly remove the 1 and 2 controlfiles from pfile and put the 3rd there itself and start the db.
startup pfile='file_path';
Is there any thing i am missing?
Please helpout.
control file '/u02/oradata/beacondp/control02.ctl' version 390158 inconsistent with file '/u01/oradata/beacondp/control01.ctl' version 390097I suspect that control02.ctl is the good one since it has the higher SCN

2nd drive unformatted and not restored after attempting restore from a system image

I created a system image, which included drive C (where Windows is installed) and drive G (where some installed Windows programs are located). I then ran into a situation where I wanted to restore from the system image. With my first attempt,
this process took several days. When I returned home from work, my computer had booted up into Windows -- drive C had successfully been restored. I soon found out though that drive G was in an unformatted state.
Now, given the time it took for each drive to restore and the sizes of data for each drive (160gb for C and 1000gb for G), it seemed odd to me that the entire process had completed already, given the time that had passed and the progress indicated for drive
G in the status bar, in the morning before I went to work. It is entirely possible that one of my cats may have jumped on my desk and somehow cancelled the operation.
My questions are:
1. if the restore is cancelled while the 2nd disk is being restored, will the 1st disk (C) still be successfully restored?
2. why does this process take so long?
3. if there is some other error, is it displayed? Does system restore automatically reboot after completion/cancellation? Is there an error file created somewhere if there was an error, or perhaps something mentioned in a log file? If so,
where?
4. has anyone encountered a similar issue before and can provide any insight?
5. anything else I'm missing?
I'm attempting to restore a second time, and it is not even halfway through drive C, so it might not be until the end of the week before the entire process completes. To be safe, especially from nosey cats, I disabled the mouse and keyboard so no input
can interrupt and accidentally cancel the process.
thanks,
Chris

Hi Chris,
For the first problem, if the restore is cancelled while the 2nd disk is being restored, the 1st disk (C) can be successfully restored.
For the second problem, I think it is normal to take a long time to finish the process, it is depend on the size of the date.
For the third problem, you may check the setup log files to find the clue of the cause.
For you convenience: Windows Setup Log Files and Event Logs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824819.aspx
You may try the methods listed in the following article step by step.
How to Do a System Image Recovery in Windows 7
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html
Please note: Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Blair Deng
Blair Deng
TechNet Community Support

My Tabs and Grouped Tabs were lost following reboot and not restored via History.

I closed Firefox properly and rebooted my computer. When I restarted Firefox, instead of seeing the tabs from the previous session, a window with the message that Video DownloadHelper (add on) Update 4.9.6 had been applied, and the other tabs in the open window were what appear to be my default set stored as my Home Page. All of the previous tabs and the grouped tabs that I was using (and would very much like to have back) were gone. I tried to use History>Restore Previous Session, but it was grayed out so I thought to look again and try History>Recently Closed Windows, but there was nothing available to restore either.

Step 1 would be to salvage your sessionstore files and make backup copies before exiting Firefox or making any other changes.
Open your active Firefox profile folder (personal settings folder) using
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button
Copy all files that start with sessionstore to a safe location such as your documents folder.
If you have not exited Firefox since this happened, try the History menu to re-open closed windows ("Previously closed windows") and within each window, to re-open closed tabs ("Previously closed tabs"). Can you get them back??
Unfortunately, by default, Firefox only stores 10 "Previously closed tabs" per window and 3 "Previously closed windows." You can find these lists on the History menu. This might be enough for most occasions, but you can increase the number stored.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste '''sess''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the '''browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo''' preference and enter your preferred number of windows (I have 10).
(4) Double-click the '''browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo''' preference and enter your preferred number of tabs (I have 20).
If you exited Firefox after the tabs were closed, does the sessionstore.bak file have a promising date/time stamp around that time? If you have exited and restarted Firefox multiple times, it's probably no longer possible to recover the old session data. To keep numerous sessions, you need an extension like Session Manager or Tab Mix Plus.

Ipad 2 not opening and not restoring

i am not able to switch on my ipad 2 since 2 months. now when i tried to switch it on it showed the sign of restoring. when i tried to restore error 9 occured almost all the time and my ipad switched off. please please suggest some ideas...pleasee

See 2nd linl. It's most likely your computer's security software.
iPad: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097
iTunes: Specific update-and-restore error messages and advanced troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
If you can’t update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
 Cheers, Tom

IPhone stuck and not restoring

My iPhone 4S started acting funny yesterday. It showed only 'searching' instead of cellular network. Tried resetting network and resetting phone at the risk of losing data but no help. Then tried to restore the same through iTunes but after installing it got stuck at "Verifying iPhone firmware" and iTunes shows "iphone could not be restored an unknown error occurred (1)" after which it goes to the mode where it shows me to connect to iTunes. Try doing through DFU mode but it gets stuck at the same point every time. Tried TinyUmbrella, BootRec, Snowbreeze as well. But no help. One thing I noticed before I tried restoring was that I was not getting any thing in IMEI or Modem Firmware filed of the Settings>General>About section.
Any help on this?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Try disabling photo stream on your device (settings > iCloud), restarting your device and then re-enabling photo stream.

Corruption and not restoring,

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for