IPod Classic crashed - has the hard drive gone for good?
I have a 80gb iPod classic and it's crashed, bizarrely after charging it in a foreign country.
I've gone into the Diagnostic mode and got the following data:
Reatracts - 8
Reallocs - 1627
Pending Sectors 18
PowerOn Hours - 676
Start/Stops - 113
Temp: 24
Min: 15
Max 47
Does this mean my hard drive has crashed and a need to repair/replace? Or is there more I can do?
Help very much appreciated! Thanks.
Can your iPod still play Music? or rather what is shown on the iPod Screen?
Can Windows recognise your iPod?
Try to fix the hardisk, by putting it into Disk Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363?viewlocale=en_US
Then connect it to Windows and run in DOS
Chkdsk drive: /R /F
Where drive is the iPod drive ID, like E: or F:
This will correct the filesystem and hopefully mark the bad cluster, which may bring down your Pending numbers..
Have a nice day!
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