Ipod hard disk spins continiously when connected to PC, kills battery?

when ipod 4th generation is connected to PC/Windows Pro, connecting to itunes and downloading songs, hard disk spins continuioulsy discharging the full battery in 5 minutes. Battery is good because it will play 5 hours on full charge. Genius at Apple Genius Bar say hard disk spins continiously when it's hook to PC, he say this discharges battery, genius does not know why HD spins continously.... say it should only spin once every 20 min or so while downloading song, when hooked to mac at genius bar, downloads songs as designed

see Restore to factory setting helps
if does not try the following as the spins may caused by the bad sectors on the HD of the iPod
For Window computer
Go to folder “My Computer”
Hope you can see your iPod there and right click on the iPod
Choose “Format”. Ensure the settings are at “Default” and that “Quick Format” is not checked
Now select “Format”
Eject your iPod and do a Reset
Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”

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Last edited by Forest_Leaves (2013-03-05 08:30:24)

srs5694 wrote:The cgdisk "damaged disk" error is probably a result of the tool seeing an MBR partition table on your USB flash drive, rather than the GPT disk it's expecting. If I'm right, you should not follow s1ln7m4s7r's advice, since that will simply trash your USB flash drive!
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Last edited by s1ln7m4s7r (2013-03-04 19:17:36)

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