IPod Mini MicroDrive Retore

One my third iPod Mini. Last one under warranty. Will be replacing my battery with one I purchased that has 50% in charge/power. Figured while I have the Mini open I might as well put in a larger MicroDirve. Found an 8gb Seagate at a reasonable price. My music collection is rather large and selecting PlayLists and Albums to copy to the Mini is ime consuming. Have found cp -R /Volumes/<ipod name>/iPod_Control... to copy music and import into iTunes, but I would like to cp my entire 4gb MicroDrive then cp back to new 8gb after installed. Problem is: I am running into permissions problems when I: cp -R /Volumes/<iPod_Name> /Volumes/<DriveName>/User/<UserName>/Music/iPodBackup. I figure if I can cp it all then cp back again? Else?

Senuti is only on Windows. My iPod attaches to a PowerMac. Dumped Windows when I was beta testing that Vista/Longhorn crap; what a bunch of... Anyway got Tune Tools and does a complete backup.
Then I got a Treo 680 when moved to AT&T. Don't need no iPod, no iPhone. I burned out three batteries on the iPod Mini. All I have to do with the Treo is open up the battery compartment and stick in the spare (CHARGED) battery. If I ever burn a battery out, it's only $30 not $100 every year/300charges.
Oh, also bought a MINI Cooper S that I will be sticking the iPod in so came back to say will be using Tune Tools to backup and restore the iPod during the 8gb HDD upgrade. Whenever I get around to moving it... maybe August '08.

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I've replace batteries (and other parts) on the full-sized iPods. This place has guides
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Mini
Interesting fact about the iPod mini. Its tiny "Microdrive" is compatible with standard compact flash cards. So, you can give it a flash upgrade.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Upgrade-Your-iPod-Mini-With-Flash-Memory---No-Mo re/
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Up to last night my iPod mini has worked perfectly. Now today, I added more songs to my library and unchecked a number of songs within the library and tried to update my iPod with the revised music listing.
However, no I get the following error message: [u]"Attempting to copy to disk "iPod" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."[/u] I subsequently retored the iPod, using the new updater, and reloaded iTunes etc, as well as rebooting the PC. Also changed USB ports...
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Check this out.
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My ancient although much loved iPod Mini (1st gen) is still pulling even at its age and I prefer it as a music player to my iPhone by miles.
Today however I clicked play on a song and it froze, then rebooted, then demanded to be plugged into iTunes and I had to restore it
Restored and syncing as we speak and all seems fine but I'm worried its hard drive is a little past it?
I plan to upgrade the little microdrive to a Compact Flash card in the not too distant future (my entire music library unfortunately doesn't fit on the 4GB drive so its shared across the iPod and my 16GB iPhone). What I'd like to know is am I going to cause damage to my iPod if I continue using it? I don't mind if it dies again and I need to restore it as all my songs are safe on my Macbook but is it possible I could be damaging the logic board or battery by operating it under its somewhat ill microdrive?
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have you changed anything on your computer?
what OS are you using?
if Mac OS, see the following: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60950
if Windows, see the following: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
have you tried resetting your ipod?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705

Did I just kill my iPod Mini?

OK. Dropped it. About three feet to a concrete floor.
Almost like dropping a baby off the diaper-changing table. Not quite, but almost.
Tried to activate it.
1) Got the black Apple logo;
2) Took longer than usual to kick in, but then got a skeleton icon of an iPod, with an +unhappy face+ and *explanation point* in a triangle;
3) Underneath, said: www.apple.com/support/ipod
Problem: If I've murdered my iPod Mini, I've got a problem.
I am running Panther (10.3.9) on an iMac, which is about five years old.
I have not upgraded operating systems for a variety of reasons. For example, I do not want to learn new commands/menus/and what, in effect, represent "new" programs; I do not want to find out a new operating system is not compatible with the variety of "old" programs I have been using (successfully)...a fact I've picked up in several forums right here.....and, since my computer is five years old (apparently a dinosaur in the computer world) I'm not about to invest any more money into it, or its compatibility with other programs/accessories.
Incidentally, if there's one key problem with +Apple+, this is it: Whenever a new operating system is released, we poor, loyal Mac users seem to be screwed. Have to upgrade ($), buy other new programs ($), even equipment. I have never met a PC user who has run into that problem.
So: Any suggestions regarding my 6GB iPod Mini? Before I give it its last rites and bury it, is there something I could do to bring it back to life? If not:
Where can I get a "new" iPod Mini. That's compatible with Panther (10.3.9)? Apple Store doesn't have any other iPod that's compatible with Panther. At least that has a minimum of 6 GB.
Suggestions appreciated.

What's with the baby-dropping analogy...?
See if you can put it into Disk Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363
If that works, connect it to your Mac. Run iTunes and see if it is recognized. If so, do a Restore to erase the iPod and initialize its software.
If you broke the IBM/Hitachi MicroDrive inside, you may be able to fix it and upgrade it at the same time. The tiny drive it uses is the same form-factor as a compact flash card, with the same connector. You can supposedly replace it with a compact flash card and get a flash-based iPod mini. 8GB compact flash cards are getting pretty cheap.
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/753/how-to-turn-your-ipod-mini-into-a-flash- based-ipod
There are online videos for taking apart the iPod mini, for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVin-kUSHd8
If you do take it apart, you may want to replace the battery, less than $10 on eBay including tools and shipping for a higher cap battery, while you have it open.

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Around Thanksgiving my iPod Mini that worked for over a year is no longer recognized by iTunes (Actually it shows as a bad file folder then dissapears in Windows Explorer).
I did everything the trouble shooting instructions suggest at least 5 times, except I can't restore because the computer does not recognize the iPod.
I was about to give up on iPods when... in a meeting at work I learned 3 out of 5 iPod users said the same thing happen since Thanksgiving and the others don’t think they have sync'ed yet.
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2.You have reset your iPod while pluged into your computer.
3.You have double checked you connections and tried different USB ports on the same computer.
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6.CAN NOT RESTORE your iPod because your computer does not recognize it.
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my ipod mini is set to update automatically with itunes, but the other day it stopped. I was using iTunes 4 but upgraded to 6 yesterday, still no luck. My mini is not recognized by itunes. I then uninstalled the iPod updater and then reinstalled it. Then, when i reconnected the iPod, a box poped up and said "Mike's iPod" (calendar, contacts), but still nothing in iTunes.
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"doing a low level reformat of the iPod's storage disk using Disk Utility. "
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