I have the ipod symbol come up with the x's in the eyes, what the ****?

so i have a 1st generation 20GB ipod the big ole white one. i got it from my mom it has been cared for very well but it is old. i went to turn it on one day and i got this goofy lookin symbol that come up on the screen after the apple start up icon. it won't play any music or nothin. I was hopin someone could help me out or at least maybe they know what the deal is...

Some of the things that can result in this symbol are dead hard drive or loose cable connecting hard drive to the iPod's motherboard. Though, usually if you have dead hard drive, you'll get error telling you to restore iPod in iTunes (and restore failing with some strange numeric code). There could be other types of problems that can result in this symbol showing up. You could try restoring iPod from iTunes, or putting it into disk mode and checking if you can see or reformat the hard drive with Disk Utility (if you have Mac). See if you get any errors, and go from there.

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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
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I have the ipod symbol come up with the x's in the eyes, what the ****?

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