My Ipod classic wont stop restoring

Is there anything i can do without having to buy a new one? Its about two years old, and a few months ago it made some clicking sound and kept restoring and now it wont stop. Is there anything I can do to fix it or is it just unusable now?

Hi denz471,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that your iPod classic is having issues waking from sleep after approximately 30 minutes. In this situation, I would recommend working through the troubleshooting steps outlined in the attached link.
Apple - Support - iPod - iPod classic Troubleshooting Assistant
Best regards,
Joe

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It could be an indication or a damaged or dying hard drive. I would recommend doing a disk diagnostic on the iPod's HD using the instructions given by turingtest2 in this older thread. He also covers what the resulting numbers indicate.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3784647?start=0&tstart=0
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First off, I would STRONGLY suggest that a external hard drive would make you life much easier by at least being able to back up your songs on the external drive for when you need them. Even if you don't want them in the iTunes library, you can have them all ready on the external to be re-added as needed. You can get 100's of gigs for under $100 shipped.
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Error 23, 28, 29: These errors may indicate a hardware issue with your device. Follow the steps in this article. Also attempt to restore while connected with the white USB Dock Connector cable that shipped with your device, on a known good computer and network to isolate this issue to the device. The MAC address being missing or the IMEI being the default value, (00 499901 064000 0), can also confirm a hardware issue. Out-of-date or incorrectly configured security software can also cause these errors.
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Timeline:
1. iPod freezes
2. restart
3. everything gone from device_ creating appearance of factory settings having been restored.
4. plug into computer.
5. computer says it cannot recognize iPod because formatless
6. computer says initialize iPod
7. I initialize iPod
8. iTunes says iPod corrupt and to try disconnecting & reconnecting from computer. iTunes also says that if that doesn't work, to restore the iPod.
9. disconnect, reconnect, FAIL.
10. restored iPod. Followed all computer prompts for admin codes &c.
11. computer says iPod is restored & rebooting_ iPod screen begins to alternate between the screen that says "Connected: Eject before disconnecting" with the connection plug icon for about a minute_ and the "Syncronizing: Do not disconnect" screen with the spinning dual arrow icon for about 10 seconds.
12. Leave iPod alone for an hour.
13. come back to surmise that iPod is stalled somewhere in the finishing of the restore process.
14. Try repairing/restoring iPod through disc utility.
15. Same shenanigans that followed the restore through iTunes.
16. Try restore through iTunes Again.
17. Shenanigans begin again & go on for several minutes until iTunes magically goes to the screen that asks you if you want to automatically sync all muisc &c. I tell it no.
18. begin to try loading things I want into the iPod.
19. Everything freezes again after 2 songs.
20. Force quit iTunes when it won't respond.
21. try to reboot iTunes & can't.
22. Eject iPod
23. iPod ejects, but restarts itself & asks me to choose a language . . . I dread that I am back to square one.
24. Miraculously, with iPod disconnected, iTunes boots up again.
25. Heave a great sigh, reconnect iPod to see what happens & continue accumulating frustration like a windowsill accumulates dead bugs.
26. iTunes issues ultimatum: "iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes. You may also try disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod. "
27. Scream in my head. Mash face into keyboard. Type timeline item 26 and so on . . . Mentally prepare to start over.

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1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iTunes and click “Restore”

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