IPod Classic 80gb RESTORE?

Hey guys,
I've been reading the forums, there seems to be so many issues with the pod.. Why why why why whyy!
Anyway, my main issue, is I had done a whole iTunes sync of over 20gb and my temporary computer i have now is very slow. HAlf way it sorta screwed up and left about 11 gbs of "other" on my computer. I've fully sync my music but now i have a whole lot of other information why i dunno how to get rid of. I've tried syncing but it downloads the update and nothing pops up. I'm gonna leave the comp on for a while just in case it's just my comp being slow.
Anyone had these issues?

i forgot in the settings of the ipod when you pull up the info it shows 21.7gb used 52.5 freethe slide bar is orange (other i believe)games is the only thing showing 3 items

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Hi there,
So i bought first ipod from one of my friends, which does have some damage to the screen on it but i have been using for a few weeks now as she had 1800 songs on it. I finally was able to purchase the usb cord and i downloaded Itunes. When i connected it to itunes it basically told me something about how the music list is part of another collection and if i wanted to add songs i would have to remove hers, which i am fine with but when i went to the summary and hit restore it popped up a little window downloaded something then states it is restoring. I left it connected to the computer and went to bed, the next night i went to my computer and it said the same thing, this went on for 3 days on the third day the i tunes was frozen and i had to close it via the task manager. i then shut down the the pc waited for the ipod to say it was ok to disconnect then removed it from the computer then rebooted the computer. i turned on the ipod and i see the menus i can play the games still but all the folders music, podcast, everything states their is no music, no videos, etc. Now every now and then it will show the apple and what seems to be a restart. I have followed the 5r's and tried to hold the menu and select key which seems to do about nothing, then i brought the ipod into disk mode and hooked it up to itunes which then tells me to reformat again. the problem is this was a working ipod with songs til i connected to itunes at my house, my friend showed me how to use itunes at her home with this same ipod and she did not have the error as soon as she plugged it into itunes.
Anyways, now i plug into itunes and it tells me to reformat thats all it will do, it does show the ipod on the left side of the menu, it does show in my computer as a drive but i can not restore and i can not sync songs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

i forgot in the settings of the ipod when you pull up the info it shows 21.7gb used 52.5 freethe slide bar is orange (other i believe)games is the only thing showing 3 items

My apple ipod classic 80gb says there is no music - anything on my ipod, but says it only has 37gb free. Then i try and plug it into my pc with iTunes on (i've set it to do not automatically sync devices) but it still freezes every time. can't restore.

my apple ipod classic 80gb says there is no music - anything on my ipod, but says it only has 37gb free. Then i try and plug it into my pc with iTunes on (i've set it to do not automatically sync devices) but it still freezes every time. the only way to unfreeze it is by detatching the ipod or resetting with menu/centre (until it loads up again, where it immediately unfreezes and comes up with a load of messages saying "cannot read iPod" and when i try and restore it by pressing menu/centre button while it's plugged in, it says "cannot restore as it is being used by another program" or "error 1415". Any ideas how to sort this out? hope i haven't majorly screwed it up. thanks.

Sorted it out. If anyone has this problem i reccommend visiting http://forums.ilounge.com/ipod-classic-ipod-5g-video/237546-ipod-classic-80gb-fr eezes-itunes-need-restore-plz-help-2.html#post1403546 there's some pretty good advice on it. have to go into control panel and re-format iPod into NTFS file. good luck.

I am Having iPOD Classic 80GB.On Sync. a message tells that it is not able toread the ipod contents -restore to factory settings-on restoring it tells that it can not be restored as it has files that are used by other applications. Pl advice

I am having iPOD classic 80GB . I Have the 10.5Latest Version of iTunes installed. When I go for Sync.It tells me to restore to factory settings as it is unable to read the contents. On restoring it tells : unable to restore as this has files that are in use by another application. I have no idea what to do now. Pl advise. Thanks

Try disabling any and all A/V or security software you are running on your system and see if that helps.
B-rock

I am not able to Sync. My iPOD classic 80Gb. It tells that as iTunes can not read the contents-restore to factory settings- after restoring – it tells that it can not be restore bcause there are files that are used by other application. I am having Widows

I am not able to Sync. My iPOD classic 80Gb. It tells that as iTunes can not read the contents-restore to factory settings- after restoring – it tells that it can not be restored bcause there are files that are used by other application. My iPOD appears in My Computer in drive H as a mass storage generick volume

Try disabilng the Enable Disk Use option from under the iPod's Summary tab, applying the changes, and seeing if that helps.
Otherwise, temporarily disabling any antivirus, security, firewall, or file indexing software that may be running on your system and then try restoring your iPod again.
B-rock

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i have ipod classic,80gb,i cant restorit via itunes and when i click restore i see the error1439 plz help me.is there any software to reset it

Hello adifromba
Try putting your iPod Classic into Disk Mode to force a restore within iTunes to get it to show up. The steps to do that are within the first article below, I have also provided a second article for further troubleshooting if it continues to not show up.
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1363
iTunes: iPod not recognized in iTunes and Mac desktop
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1410
Regards,
-Norm G.

Restoring a used Ipod Classic 80gb I bought

Hello,
I bought a used Ipod Classic 80gb after my Ipod 30gb 5th generation was stolen.
In order to use this "new" ipod I had to download a newer Itunes version and do some changes. This Ipod I bought (that's 100% authentic) needs to be restored to a windows formatted version, when I hit RESTORE. It says it has to download something and afterwards it says the connection time expired and that I need to check my network properties. They seem to be working ok!!!!!.....at least the Ipod is being recognized by the computer at last but HOW CAN I RESTORE IT!?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING!!??!?
PLEASE HELP!!!!

*Hay man That same problem happened to me when I wanted to update to 1.1.2. I kept trying but download doesn't complete. I went to a friend's house with a higher bandwidth and installed the iTunse and it worked fine. Maybe it was just my connection or something else. Try it. It might help. ;)*

IPod classic 80GB suddenly stops showing on iTunes both on explorer and finder (I use windows 7 and Mac OSX) Any help?Tried everything nothing works!!!

Hello everyone.
I have bought an (admittedly used) iPod classic 80GB on New Year's this year.For the better part of this month it was working beautifully.I was lucky that I got it.But just a week ago,it started bugging out.It would mount on iTunes and I would drag and drop music and videos on it but could only do it one at a time or it froze.This continued on for a couple days then finally yesterday it won't show on itunes at all.I tried resetting it,changing usb ports but it still wouldn't show except on plugged devices on ''Computer'' and on Finder (I have been trying to make it show on my macbook as well with no luck either)
I ever resorted to trying to remove completely and reinstall iTunes.still won't show and unfortunately for some reason whenever I try to reinstall it now on my windows 7 it says something about it ''missing a key'' and stopping the installation.
Can anyone offer me any solutions?I am growing pretty desperate here as the last time i managed to do a ''drag and drop'' to put my videos and music in it,any movie I dropped into the iPod,even though it shows on the device,it won't play at all -.-
PS.The ipod had been updated and formatted on my windows 7 if that helps any....
PS2.I had restored my iPod twice both on Windows 7 and on my MacBook when the freezing issue had happened when i plugged it in on my PC.It is currently updated and formatted on windows
PS3.iPod is on disk mode already and now still can't reinstall itunes 11
SOS Someone help me Offer me some solutions other than the ones I've already tried??

I am still having the problem. I have noticed a pattern to the seemingly random freezes.
The iPod is stopping to Sync at almost predictable points during the sync. The first stoppage occurs around the 1.9GB part of the sync. This has not always been the same file but it is always around the same place.
When I sync in small chunks the freeze occurs at almost the same place every time. As soon as it freezes, iTunes is toast and the entire computer needs to be restarted.
Anyways, the freeze happens around every 2GB's of data transferred. It does not have to be in one chunk, it is almost like it is happening on the iPod. Like the iPod is kicking itself out of the sync at certain points along it's hard drive or something. Once it freezes and I restart the computer, I can transfer another 2 GB before it freezes again... then restart, repeat. Finally I was able to load up the 14.8 GB I had in my iTunes. Several hours later... not sure if I should take the iPod back or not. If it is the iPod and that fixes the problem great... but if it is my machine, I get another 3-4 hours syncing and restarting my computer. Wheeee!

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So, my friend recently gave me his old iPod Classic 80gb 6th generation. I restored it, then began to sync it with my itunes library. It began to sync, but then froze. iTunes and Finder became frozen. I had to force quit iTunes and then unplug the iPod and restart finder to get everything in order. The iPod still doesn't work. I ran the disk utility and got the results as follows.
http://i47.tinypic.com/mu8mft.jpg
I would really appreciate a free solution to this problem as I can't live without my music.
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Ipod classic 80gb wheel lags

I have an ipod classic, 80gb,and when i scroll the whell up and down in volume, it is not as smooth as it is after a restart.Spesifically the wheel lags in volume.
I have done the diagnostics test and it passed the test.
And i have restore it many times..After the restore, it is ok, but after a new sync with i tunes it lags again.
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Never mind.
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IPod classic randomly restored on its own and now wont connect to itunes..

Hey guys
So last week i sync'd my iPod Classic 80gb and everything worked fine.
I've been away for the week and have used my iPod in a couple of different speakers/car transmitters/playstation etc and they have all worked fine.
Then when I got home today, the ipod says 'connected' but doesnt come up in itunes.
However, it does come up in my computer as 'steff's ipod' and shows that there is space being used on the ipod, even though it comes up as blank when i use it.
After I unplugged this it froze and once i got it back unfrozen, everything appears to be gone.
Now whenever i plug it in nothing comes up in itunes even though it says 'connected' however when i unplug it, an error then comes up in itunes saying it cannot sync with the ipod.
The first time i plugged it in it did come up with an error saying it was corrupt.
I've tried installing windows 7 updates, and uninstalling and reinstalling itunes but now itunes just freezees once the ipod is connected to the computer.
Now something similar happened to me a while ago and ended up killing my ipod, I had to go back to Apple and they offered me a refurbished one.
However that time it didnt restore on it's own, something just went wrong and it couldnt sync, but it started with the 'corrupt ipod' message so im thinking its something with my computer that's causing this (the guy at the Apple store did say that my PC caused the problem but i dont know how!)
Any assistance would be great, I don't really feel like spending another 200 dollars on a third ipod.
Thanks!

update- now it will come up in itunes and says it detects an ipod in recovery mode and to restore it.
I do this and it says the ipod will reset and come back up in itunes when it is done, however it never comes back up and either itunes ends up freezing or the ipod does.
then after i reset the computer it goes around in circles and does all of this again

My ipod classic 80gb shows an error code 1439 can it be fixed

my ipod classic 80gb shows an error code 1439 can it be fixed or can anyone help please.

Hey there tomhanson
How are you?
Well, I have an iPod Classic, it gave me the error -1436 error and would not restore on iTunes.
I did the following:
My Boss (@work) has a fairly old iBook but it has OS-X, so I decided to give it a try and connected my iPod to it.
The system showed a window telling me that the disk is not MAC formated and needs to be validated prior further action. Snce it is a Mac product, I thought "yeah, go ahead".
It then opens the disk manager utility for the Mac and showed the disk. It's window has some tabs, one is to verify the disk, so I verified it. Guess what, it had some invalid clusters.
Then I formatted the iPod to OS-X Plus file system (next tab to the right). After formating the iPod, I "ejected" the iPod and reconnected to my PC. The Windows iTunes found an iPod with Mac file system and asked me to restore it. As I clicked on the "restore" button, I crossed my fingers as this was the last resource I have.
Finally, after the file extraction was done, it began to restore the iPod!!
I'm so happy about being able to restore the iPod that I decided to share with all you guys this solution as it is the most usefull, in my opinion.
Hope you can find someone with an iBook or a desktop Mac, so you can fix yours.
If it works for you, make sure to share the tip!!
Kind regards
Salvador Rivera

Ipod classic 80gb shows blank white screen

I have an Ipod classic 80gb. I was having sync issues w/ itunes so I restored it using the itunes restore button. All good, it said it was updating my Ipod software and all went well. Then upon restart of the Ipod at the completion of the software update, no apple icon or anything. Just a blank white screen. The click wheel and all buttons still function as does the hold switch. I have tried resetting it (Menu and select) numerous times to no avail. I have tried restoring it and everything else with no result either. Connect it to my computer, Itunes sees it, syncs with it and all is well, just a blank white screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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I have an Ipod classic 80gb. When I plug my Ipod into my computer the Ipod freezes on the Apple logo on screen. The only way to get it back is to go into disk mode and then restore the ipod on itunes but it doesn't fix it permanently. As soon as I plug it back in or it resets it does the same thing. If i leave it unplugged for a while then it will come back on like a reset ipod asking to select language and it is then a factory reset ipod with nothing on it. When I plug it back in so i can upload songs it does the same thing again. Please help

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