IPod 60GB misbehaving?

Hi everyone,
I have an old iPod 60GB colour that has, until now, been pretty good. It's now about 7-8 years old and is about 80% full. Last weekend I got the unhappy iPod error face on the screen and could not raise anything. This has happened before once or twice, but was corrected with a couple of forced restarts. This time, connecting to the computer did nothing - repeated restarting the iPod did nothing. I also tried to put the iPod into disk mode (see Apple support for this issue) but it was non-responsive. After a couple of days with nothing working I took the plunge and bought a new iPod Classic (very nice).
As soon as the new iPod Classic was home and synced, the old iPod 60GB starting working again and has been fine ever since! I suspect gremlins! I am now the proud owner of two iPods! Has anyone else had an experience like this?

Most iPods that use a hard drive for storage fail because the hard drive becomes faulty. In your case, it may be becoming unreliable, but still works some of the time. If you have content on the iPod that is not in your current iTunes library, you may want to off-load it to your computer's drive.
In case the cause is data corruption, and not a physical problem, on the hard drive, you can try doing a Restore on the iPod (now that it is currently recognized by iTunes). This will erase the iPod, re-install its software, and set it to default settings.
NOTE: If the hard drive is becoming unreliable, it's possible for the Restore process to fail. If that happens, the iPod may no longer operate.

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