I think I messed up my iPod partition, please HELP
Hello, this is my first post.
So yesterday Windows finally died, I don't know what happened but it sinmply won't boot because something caused a major corruption in the Windows folder.
Good thing I always have Ubuntu as a second OS, I managed to access all my documents, movies and music from Ubuntu and I copied them to my iPod Video 30GB.
Then I did a complete format to my Hard Drive and today I just installed XP again but I did something stupid, when I was at the installation process, I didn't realize I had my iPod plugged in to my computer, and I accidentally deleted my iPod partition from the partition manager.
Then I plugged my iPod off and a white screen with some warning in different languages popped up. It said something about recover fron iTunes.
Then I installed iTunes and plugged my iPod again hoping for iTunes to fix my iPod and be able to use it again, but then a message comes up saying all the contents and other data stored in the iPod will be deleted.
I really can't believe this is happening, I have very important documents stored there along all my songs and movies (the ones I had on my PC).
Is there any way to recover the partition information and make it work again? Like in windows you can use the recovery console and fix the MBR and the boot.ini file.
Any help will be greatly appretiated, and thanks in advance.
Like in windows you can use the recovery console and fix the MBR and the boot.ini file.
The iPod's hard drive is like any Windows-formatted external USB drive. So you should try using whatever method you refer to above on the iPod. You can also try using data recover utilities. If the iPod is not recognized by Windows, try putting it into Disk Mode before connecting it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363
In other words, you should try whatever might work if you had accidentally wiped the partition off a USB external hard drive.
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