Hard Drive is messed up

my hard drive has broken or is hurt in some way. can i get this repaired or do i have to buy a new ipod?

Why are you certain the hard drive is broken?
If you do need it serviced and it is out of warranty there are 3rd party sites that work on them, such as http://www.ipodmods.com or http://www.iresq.com or Google for more. They can either work on it or sell you a hard drive and you can DIY.

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Hello! Does the drive show up at all in disk utility after you restart? Is the disk name "dimmed" or is the name in the list brightly black? Try starting from the Tiger install disc (with disc inserted restart and hold down the "c" key) and then at the language window go to the menu at the top and open disk utility from there and try and repair the disk.
When you installed the second disc did you install it jumpered "master", "slave" or "cable select"? The drive jumpered master goes on the end of the ribbon and the slave in the middle. Sometimes drives jumpered as cable select won't work.
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My hard drive is messed up I was told I need to erase and reinstall lion, but I was wondering if I could reinstall maverick instead seeing as it is the most recent one out there. Ideas? tips?

I am running Mac OSX 10.7.5 I need to erase everything and reinstall. Should I reinstall Lion again or maverick?

Ooops.
I upgraded my 10.6.8 system to 10.7.5. ..No problem, but my practice is to connect an ESATA dock to my macpro. install to the drive in the doc, use migration assistant to migrate my data and apps.   use the os in the doc for 2 weeks, if no issue then I delete the OS partiton in my Internal System Drive, do a carbon copy clone to the internal drive.
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Now I am at the "burn in stage" mavericks is now running fast and stable.   I'll use all my apps and if it does not break with the applications I run I will eventaully cc my 10.7.5 OS drive to the docking station, file the drive away.. and take my 10.9.1 drive in the doc and cc it to my internal system drive.
I always wipe out a partion when installing a new OS. Zeroing out is a bit more thorough, you will know if your drive is junk... but it's overkill for me.
I figured repartion is ok.
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Could this be a failed hard drive?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US
It sounds like the hard drive itself is toast based on how it looks in an enclosure. So you won't be able to boot from it. Possibly after a PRAM reset you could option boot to a disc or to your external drive.
I had the experience of a failed hard drive totally messing up my PowerMacG4, and it took some doing to get it going again. I finally got it going again, and it has been working ever since without issue.
The MBP is a different machine, but having experienced first hand what a dying hard drive could do, I think it's well worth doing any resets you can.
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Computer hard drive messed up plz HELP!!!

the hard drive on my computer messed up somehow and had to get it replaced, now EVERYTHING from itunes is gone but i still have it on my ipod is there anything i can do to get it back onto my computer???
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Haha I wish I could remember! I'm looking for it right now...
EDIT: It's a checkbox option when you're looking at your iPod summary in iTunes... the very first one. There's no way to check it if your iPod isn't plugged in....
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close itunes and plug in your iPod and un whatever program you were told to use to transfer music back onto your PC. If iTunes opens and begins to update your iPod, I'm sorry, but really, it's the same as not trying.
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Had to have my hard drive "cleaned." Now everything I try and do is a mess. All my data on my iPhone was deleted. I'm trying to figure out how to find it. I can't update my apps. Always asks for my PW, but tells me it's wrong....HELP!

I recently had to have my computer hard drive "cleaned." While this was going on, I broke my SG3, and now own an SG4.
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There is no such thing as an "SG3" or "SG4". Did you possibly mean a 3GS and iPhone4?
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