Ipod classic fault

My ipod classic has wiped clean and no longer shows in itunes windows message just says need to format disk f but cant format it please help

Possibly a driver conflict, or overactive antivirus, or Windows trying to use the drive for ReadyBoost.
See also Corrupt iPod classic, might just be worth confirming the stats are OK.
tt2

Similar Messages

I can't sync all music to ipod classic. shows fault -69 or sometimes -50

I seem to have problem with my ipod classic. It started when i ejected from itunes when it was still syncing and all the files on ipod vanished. After that I couldn't sync at all & couldn't restore. I've updated the Itunes and restored the ipod so it works but it doesn't sync all the music, neither whole playlist it just picks some tracks.
The communications shows it cannot find some files with error -69 or -50 does anyone know what this could mean??? after that it stops syncing.
P.S. I've not moved the music anywhere and the itunes plays everything, what can i do?
Thank you in advamce for help.
Joanna

Error -50 is a connection timeout, when iTunes is trying to transfer huge number of songs to your iPod, see this support link.
It maybe cause by your Antivirus. So if you want to sync safely, disconnect your PC from the Internet, Stop your Antivirus
I would suggest that you split your songs into several playlist of 1000 songs, and sync 1 playlist at a time.
if that doesn't help, then check out this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1539

IPod Classic 5th Gen - possible HD fault

Hi so I have a 5th gen iPod Classic 80GB which has been working fine since I bought it second hand.
Yesterday however it was not responding and I connected it to my laptop to resolve the issue and it came up as corrupted. I have had to put it into Disk Mode, followed by fully restoring it to factory settings.
this process has taken a long time to get to but eventually went through fully. now however it is fully restored when disconnected from my laptop. as soon as i plug it into my laptop it shows the screen status saying "Connected - Eject before disconnecting.". however instead of displaying the charger connection picture it shows the rotating sync symbol as if it is syncing, but this isnt the case.
just for reference the ipod also does not appear in itunes when it is connected to the laptop but does show up in my desktop as a removable disk. in addition, the ipod works as if it were new when disconnected.
everytime I disconnect the ipod and reconnect it to my laptop it repeats the process saying the ipod needs to be restored to factory settings even though i have just completed this process.
I have done some research on apple support and read about how to access the test mode on the iPod which shows diagnostics.
I have been at it for a fews hours now to resolve the issue but I am out of ideas of what to do.
could anyone help me with this rather frustrating problem?
many thanks,
Johnny

I have a similar prob 5th or 6th gen 120GB classic, been working fine regular conection to PC and alway keep the
software up to date.
After latest itunes upgrade first time connect ipod PC said need to be formatted itunes had it as a possible
corruption, did factory restore but still get the same error messages. Once disconeected ipod seems almost new
as can set menus etc but obv all music wiped in the restore.
done a full re-install of latest itunes with live apple support but still get same PC and itunes error messages.
I hope this isnt a glitch with new version of itunes.
I purchased ipod in 2009 so I can get a replacement from point of purchase under"Consumer Law" as a "known hardware issue" supposedly. Or pay £90.00 ish and have the same thing done thru apple shop or approved
service centre. Or get a new one but surely if more of these issues come about now then maybe there is a glitch with the new itunes

Why can't i put a movie on my iPod Classic?

All of a sudden, I can't put a movie on my iPod Classic! We've been transferring .mp4 and .mv4 movies to it and then playing them on our home TV setup for years . . . and now I keep getting the message "This movie was not copied to the iPod because it cannot be played on this iPod!"
What?
We've reformatted/restored the iPod with the latest software version a couple of times now, but to no avail. Same message every time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I think I've found the problem here and its solution:
I use Handbrake 0.9.5 (mostly) to re-encode avi movies (and the like) for transfer to my Classic. When I launch that application, the default translation preset is "Regular/Normal." And therein lies the problem, for "Regular" most certainly does not work on the iPod Classic! It does for my MacBook Pro, to be sure, but NOT for my old iPod.
However, the moment I select "Apple/iPod" as the preferred encoding preset, a check mark immediately appears in the small "iPod 5G Support" box . . . which is NOT checked when "Regular/Normal" is the default. Eureka!
Now I have no problems moving movies to my Classic. Nobody's at fault here . . . I just had to look a little closer at the available options.

IPod Classic will not properly sync

Hey everybody. I'm really hoping that somebody could help me out with this, as I am getting rather frustrated with it.
My iPod Classic 120GB will not properly sync with iTunes on Windows 7. When I plug my iPod into my computer, I get the typical "Scan & Fix" message from Windows, and I generally just close the window without selecting an option (to Scan & Fix or Ignore), as neither option has ever seemed to change anything.
I used to have over 100GB of music on my iPod, collected from various sources over the past 5 years or so, but a few months ago I plugged my iPod in to add new music to it, and iTunes did not recognize any of the files on my iPod. When I ejected it, there was no music on my iPod, but it still had 100GB of space filled. I decided to just bite the bullet and reformat my iPod, even though I would be losing most of my music, in hopes that I could make it work correctly.
However, after I reformatted it, I have continued to have problems. I have reformatted using both iTunes and the Windows reformatting tool. Every time I plug my iPod in to add new music, the same things happen. I'm not automatically syncing iTunes to my iPod, because I like to be able to manage my music manually. I can add some music to it, but certain files will not copy and then nothing alphabetically after those files will copy either. I eject my iPod and use it normally throughout the day, but then when I plug it back into my computer again to try to add the rest of my music, iTunes says that my iPod has no music on it (even though space is being used). When this happens, I just restore the iPod and try again, and this is getting extremely aggravating.
My music is all in MP3 format, and I am not trying to add movies, pictures, or any other files to my iPod (other than cover art). I have run anti-virus checks and stuff on all of my music files, and everything has come up clean. Should I try converting all of my music to AAC, or will this just take forever and not actually fix anything? I have already tried downgrading to an older version of iTunes, and I have still been having the same issues. I don't know what else I could do, and I really don't have the money to buy a new iPod.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

There may be some hardware fault on the iPod's hard drive, which is causing this problem. Your use of manual loading may be agravating the problem, because you are making the iPod apply many small incremental disk access updates. If you used automatic syncing, iTunes makes all changes at once, with one disk access, then dismounts the iPod's disk and spins down until the next sync, when it again makes all updates at once.
I understand why you want to use the manual method, but here's a way to "replicate" what you do manually using automatic syncing.
Create a new playlist in iTunes. Load this playlist with ALL the songs you want on the iPod.
Select the iPod in iTunes. There is a row of "tabs" (starting with Summary). Click on Music there. On the Music tab, set it to Sync music using Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Below that, keep it simple by checkmarking ONLY that new playlist with the songs you want on the iPod. When you click Apply, the songs on that playlist sync to the iPod.
Going forward, to update the iPod's songs, just update that playlist (add and remove songs). Basically, instead of manually updating the iPod, you are manually updating the playlist. It's the same work, but with several key advantages:
- The iPod does not need to be connected to make updates, increasing flexibility and reducing wear-and-tear on iPod. Just connect the iPod once after you are done making all changes to the playlist.
- Updates to a playlist are instantaneous. Updates made directly to an iPod (especially one with a hard drive that may need to spin up) takes a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on data size. You're just waiting.
- Many small updates to the iPod's hard drive is more wear-and-tear, compared to iTunes applying all of your changes with one consolidated disk access.
- iTunes keeps the iPod's "disk" NOT mounted, except when syncing. This reduces wear-and-tear, and the chance of data corruption occuring. The manual method requires the iPod's disk to be mounted at all times (until ejected).
- Because the iPod's disk is not mounted most of the time, you don't need to eject before disconnecting.
- You have a backup of all of your iPod songs on the computer's hard drive.
- If you do a Restore, or if you get a new iPod, all you do is go to the Music tab and select that one playlist again, and click Apply. Everything back to the way it was before, with a few mouse clicks (and 20-30 minutes or so of syncing).
If you want multiple playlists on the iPod, just create those playlists in the iTunes library. Name them so that they all appear grouped together in the iTunes sidebar. Checkmark those playlists on the Music tab. Do your "song maintenance" in iTunes using those playlists, and let iTunes automatically sync all changes at once the next time you connect the iPod (or click the Sync button).
Try setting it up to use automatic syncing, to see if there is any improvement.

Can't get iPod Classic to do anything!

My iPod classic has always seemed to struggle with connecting to my computer/iTunes but I usually put that down to it being the computers fault. Occasionally my iPod would freeze up and the only way I knew how to fix it was to let it drain it's battery and then once recharged it would again. Just now it frooze again so I let the battery die out, but now when I'm trying to charge it or connect it to the computer, I'm just getting an error saying "www.apple.com/support/ipod" with a picture of a red cross. I tried looking on the help site but can't find anything to help me.
Can anyone help me? Why is it coming up with an error? Why does it keep freezing up? Why won't my computer or iTunes recognise it?
(Also the entire back of the iPod is blank so I can't use the serial number to request help from Apple!)

iPod Displays a Red "X" Icon http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1463. in the past this is not only the hard drive but also the logic board.

IPod Classic Crashes randomly with ntdll.dll error

Sometimes when I plug-in my 120GB iPod Classic, iTunes would crash, giving me a ntdll.dll error, and I would need to unplug my iPod classic before it would allow iTunes to start again. Upon disconnect, the iPod will try to restart and then it would unsuccessfully do so, and then it would reboot and tell me to restore via iTunes. After I plug it back in, the iPod would restore fine. It seems that if I don't sync my iPod for a couple of days, the possibility of this error happening is most likely, versus if I plugged it in consistently every day.
I have had this issue for quite a while here are the steps that I've taken to try to mediate this issue:
-Switched iPod twice with Apple Store
-Tried the sync on two different computers with completely different hardware (but windows 7 on both)
-Made a new iTunes library
-Search the support forums/google
-Tried various cables
Here is the error logs from the most recent crash:
Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 9.0.3.15, time stamp: 0x4b590a69
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bdadb
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00052bf8
Faulting process id: 0x384
Faulting application start time: 0x01cad74f5f441de7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: a9fac431-4342-11df-9742-00238bf6c0ab
Any help would be appreciated!

OK So I sync'd it this afternoon and in the evening, I plugged it in again, and this time it caused iTunes to crash with this error:
Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 9.0.2.25, time stamp: 0x4afca401
Faulting module name: iTunes.dll, version: 9.0.2.25, time stamp: 0x4afca3e5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00abc4c0
Faulting process id: 0x728
Faulting application start time: 0x01cad7c0e0284b0c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.dll
Report Id: b9bf634a-43b4-11df-b2dc-0015f20ac1cf

TS1369 iPod Classic is not recognised by iTunes or by my PC (XP)

Hi
Since I updated my iTunes over a week agao I can no longer sync my iPod Classic as it is not recognised by iTunes or by my PC (XP). Apple have been great so far and have sent me lots of links and called many times to try to resolve the issue, but to no effect. They kindly agreed to replace the iPod as it appeared there is a hardware fault as a result of the update, BUT last night my housemate went to update his iPod Nano for his holiday (he uses the same PC but logs in under a different system user and has his own iTunes) and he now has the same problem!!!!!
I have done everything on this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369
Checked the USB port works with other hardware (yes)
Changed the iPod cable (yes)
Removed and resinstalled itunes (yes)
Placed iPod into disc mode (yes)
Reinstalled the USB drivers (yes)
None of it works! Other hardware works in the USB ports and my iPod is recognised in my work PC! So something during the iTunes update has caused a major problem that I can't seem to fix I assume on my PC. When I reinstall the USB drive, the PC then has a pop saying that an ipod is connected, and then immediately after a new pop up saying there is a hardware issue! Aaaaargh.
At a loss... Any suggestions?
(The screen of my housemates iPOd nano went blank a few weeks ago and wasuseless, so an apple store replaced it for him; so his new nano is only 5 weeks old!)
Cheers
Howard

You may refer to this tutorial, it's about how to fix iTunes sync problem with iPod. Hope it helps. Feel free to email me if you need further help.

Serious problem with my iPod Classic/iTunes

I have a 6th Generation iPod classic (80 GB), and recently, I have been having some serious problems with it.
When I connect it to iTunes, there is usually no problem, it shows up, plays and displays the music correctly, etc. However, if I try to ADD any music to it, iTunes will freeze, then close, and within 5 minutes, my entire computer will freeze completely, and be shut off. For whatever reason, happen when my iPod finally disconnects because my computer turned off, all of my music is missing from the library (This doesn't happen every time it freezes, because I try to disconnect my iPod manually before everything freezes). The music is still on the iPod, (it says that I have XX.X GB of "other" instead of music/videos), but it doesn't show up. When I plug in my iPod, iTunes says that there was a problem and I need to restore it. The first time this happened, I lost over 5,800 songs, but I forgave Apple, because these things do occasionally happen, plus I had no idea what exactly went on. The SECOND time happened within the same week, after I had put 800 songs back on the restored iPod. The first time happened when I was using iTunes 10 (which is seriously buggy on my computer, and freezes often), so I switched to iTunes 9 (still buggy, but doesn't freeze quite as much), and the same thing happened. So now I'm thinking it's my iPod's fault. My iPod does a whole host of minor problems over time such as making certain songs cut off at a certain specific point for no reason (Always the same song, always the same cut off point, and I can't fast forward past it, I also can't delete the songs because if I highlight them on iTunes, iTunes will freeze, and if I find them under the music folder in iPod control, my computer will freeze), freezing the entire iPod for seemingly no reason, and somehow messing up my album artwork (it will appear as "Colourful Static"), along with alot more.
I know this is a troublesome problem, but if anyone could somehow shine some light on this problem, it would be tremendously appreciated.
Thank you
-Eric Luna

Unfortunately, when a hard drive starts clicking that means it's going bad. The mechanism is having trouble reading the drive. Since the iPod is mostly just a harddrive and a battery I have a feeling that this is your problem.
watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMm6c3fr-fU
about 25ss in is where the clicking starts. If it sounds like that, but softer and more muffled since it is a smaller drive that is being enclosed then I think you might be SOL. Maybe if you're iPod is still under warranty you can get a credit and go for a touch and avoid moving parts all together?

IPod Classic's screen when connecting to ITunes

With my IPod Classic 80GB with displying time on the menu, when connecting(Syncing) to ITunes, where time was displyed on the top grey line like 8:20PM for example, it turns into a meaningless letter 'P'.
If the time is like 8:20AM, no such letter will appear on this grey line.
Is this for everyone's ipod classics? Or only mines stuffed.
No fault on its functions, but curious if this is just a stuff up by Apple.
Your yes/no is much appreciated.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Jase221

I'm seeing the same here, too. Letter "P" on top of the screen when connected to iTunes.
I will see if turning off the clock in the display or switching to 24hour time works. Hadn't noticed if connected in the AM makes a difference since I usually synch up at night in the PM.
The iPod seems to operate just fine otherwise.
Message was edited by: carlosdls

IPod classic issues with iTunes 9 just may be disk problems in ipod

I have done extensive testing for several days now on this iTunes 9 issue with iPod Classics. I used 3 different computers, 1 Macbook Pro, Windows 7 and XP with iTunes 8. I had 2 - ipod classic 80GB and 2 - ipod 5th Generation 30GB units people gave me to look at.
It would take too much typing to describe all the restores, syncs, formats, copies I did over the past few days.
Bottom line: Using PC utilities I began to believe the iPod hard drives had bad sectors. I trusted the disk testing because I got different results from different ipods. The problems I experienced and what I have read here are consistent with what you would expect from disk problems and S.M.A.R.T. technology on the drives.
If bad sectors on a drive are dealt with by S.M.A.R.T. I would expect delays in accessing those sectors to occur.. resulting in delays to restore, delays to sync, delays to even skip songs on the ipod itself.
What may be the case is switching to iTunes 9, discovers when it trys to use the bad sectors. Maybe iTunes 9 is more timing temperamental. I have iPods that pass all disk tests that work fine with iTunes 9 on mac and PC. The other 2 ipods reporting bad sectors on a disk test, can restore, but syncing 3000+ songs is nearly impossible. Sync delays were consistent with where I would expect bad sectors to exist in the process. Delays I noticed just copying a folder to the ipod in disk mode were consistent with the delays that occur syncing in iTunes.

It is a possibility...
I will state though that in my opinion the main problem is that itunes 9 is far less fault tolerant than prior versions and is far more likely to preemptively send an ipod into recovery mode when running into a problem when a ipod is plugged in.
I'd had a couple of incidents in prior versions of itunes when it flashed an alert message that it was having trouble accessing the ipod. Usually unplugging and reconnecting the ipod resolved the issue. Unfortunately this system of handling the issue does not work at all with itunes 9. What happens is that the next time you plug in the ipod it is preemptively sent into recovery mode.
I've had my ipod sent into recovery mode 7-8 times since I Installed Itunes 9. The last 5 of those in the last week. I've already done the reinstall itunes 9 from scratch and I still had to do a recovery of the ipod last night. Today I bought a new interface cable on the theory that my old cable might be defective. I've been able to plug it in tonight without itunes complaining about being unable to access the ipod

Download photos from ipod classic

Because of a glitch with the electricity, my separate harddrive reformatted itself to MS-Dos; so to reformat it back to Mac, I had to delete my iPhoto files. While trying to back it up on my OTHER harddrive, a 'fault' appeared just as it was finishing up. After clicking the OK button, I thought, well, the iPhoto that already was there would be practically fully backed up, one photo more or less would be no problem. So I went ahead and reset my harddrive (the first one), not realizing that my iPhoto had entirely disappeared from my second, backup harddrive! I still have a few of the pictures on my iPod classic. The question is, can I upload them back from my iPod into a file on my computer?

Depending on your options when you synced the photos onto the iPod they may only be low resolution versions. Some of the tools listed in this user tip Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device may be able to extract them. If you included full resolution images I think they get stored in readable folders at the root of the iPod's drive.
tt2

Ipod classic wont start up or reset after sleeping mode

Hi. I've just got a new iPod Classic 160Gb, one week old. Everything is fine except that it won't turn on after sleep mode is on. I cant do the restart. The iPod somehow does not response to the menu+start buttons at the same time. It however wakes to live when I plug it to the computer. But when not in use and after it enters sleeping mode I still cannot turn it on. The only option again is to plug it to the computer. This is not right...?? It has the latest software and I have reset to original setup through iTunes.
Anyone know how I could solve this problem? Could this be a hardware fault?
Robban22

Hi, did you ever find a fix for this? My iPod Classic has just done the exact same thing - red X, won't be detected on Windows, and won't go into disk mode (will go into Config mode, but I can't see anything in that mode that will help).
Would really like to be able to put this into disk mode so I can try to restore my files...

In Car iPod Classic 160 cutting out after about 2 mins

I have a Kenwood KDC6537u car headunit with the KCA iP200 cable and an iPod classic 160gb. Everything seems fine and runs well for about 2 mins when I get a 'iPod Err' display. The display on the iPod goes back from the 'Kenwood' screen to the normal iPod screen. Switching the unit off and on restarts the iPod only to stop again after another two minutes or so. Is there something that I need to reset on the iPod to stop this. I've upgraded the headunit to the latest available from kenwood so I'm now stuck.
Any help would be appreciated.

Further to the description I have done two journeys where this didn't happen and all was well. This makes for even more frustration. Kenwood can't offer anything other than to reset the iPod which didn't work. They also suggest there may be a fault in part of the 'chain' of bits but I don't have the capability to check - I only have one of each bit so can't compare.
Anyone have any suggestions? Please?

IPod Classic won't charge using MA242LL/A

I recently purchased a used MA242LL/A AV connection kit for use with my 120GB iPod classic. The MA242LL/A connection kit contains a connector cable with a firewire output, which plugs into the 2-prong power adapter, however, my iPod will not charge while resting in the dock (which is, in turn, plugged into a power outlet via the firewire cable and power adapter). Audio output is working properly via the dock, so that piece of the puzzle doesn't seem to be at fault.
Is the 120GB classic compatible with this firewire doc cable and accompanying power adapter, or will I need to upgrade to the USB style cable and a suitable adapter?

Is the 120GB classic compatible with this firewire doc cable and accompanying power adapter
No.
(44085)

Ipod classic fault

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for