Problem using iPod classic 20GB as hard drive

any idea why a completely restored-to-factory-settings, empty 20GB iPod enabled for disk use wouldn't allow transfer of an iPhoto Library? i am trying to back up my library, itself housed on an external hard drive, but when i copy the library i get a message saying 'there is not enough free space'. any ideas or suggestions? is there something physically wrong with my iPod? thanks!

good grief - it's too big... no wonder. sorry i didn't look at that before (how embarrassing). thanks!

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Using Ipod Classic as a hard-drive

This might sound like a silly question, but if anyone could help me out i'd be very grateful...
I have recently bought a 160GB ipod, with the intention of using it as a hard-drive - is it at all possible to erase all the tracks on my macbook (to which my ipod is synched to) and keep all of the tracks on the ipod, saving me having all of my music in 2 places?
This would create more hard-drive space on my mac, and i could just plug my ipod into my macbook instead.
Would this however cause problems when synching new music as the ipod would surely recognise that all the previous music on the mac had been deleted and would therefore delete it on the ipod too...?
hope that makes sense...?!
Thanks,
Ben.

On the main ipod screen in itunes check the manually manage ipod box.
I would personally keep the tracks on my laptop, the ipod HDD is less stable than the laptops.

IPod Classic: what causes hard drive damage?

I charged my iPod Classic (160GB) this morning, properly ejected the device, used it for a few minutes, then it just..... crashed. I've tried running tests and nothing happened. I've also tried reconnecting it to my laptop (Mac) but it indicated Error 1434/ said the device is not repairable/. Then went straight to restoring it via my iMac, but no luck (it detects the device, but it doesn't show up on iTunes -- so how can I restore?). I've done my research and ended up with this idea: my iPod is dead. Now I'm just wondering -- after almost a year and a half of taking care of my iPod (by taking care, I mean proper ejecting, not dropping it, etc), why the sudden hard drive damage?
Please enlighten me.

Hard drives do fail over time. Even solid state drives will fail one day.
However, I once had a problem with an iPod Classic that I belive was caused by using the iPod as an external hard drive and I ended up taking it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store. All the Genius did was plug it in to his computer and used some 3rd party application to force the iPod to restore again. And that was after I tried several things. So I suggest you take it to a Apple Genius if you can.
If you can't go to an Apple Store, I can look for that 3rd party Application.

On my third iPod classic, possibly failing hard drive, again

i've been using 160gb ipod classics for a few years now, they're the most easily available and affordable music players for the amount of music i listen to regularly, and for a while they worked perfectly for me. after the first one i owned was stolen, my second ipod lasted a good while but then started having problems that were attributed by myself & apple to a failing hard drive. now i'm on my third one, and while attempting to sync music to it, all of my music was randomly removed from the ipod. the ipod itself seems to work fine, but now itunes is giving me error 1439 and i can't restore it or format it. is the hard drive failing on this one as well? is something wrong on my end, or are all new ipod classics generally this bad, or am i just coincidentally getting faulty ones? how do i proceed?
here's the stats on it which actually do not look good
Retracts: 7
Reallocs: 2648
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 61
Start/Stops: 5451
Temp: Current 35c
Temp: Min 10c
Temp: Max 54c

You're not supposed to let the iPod get hotter than 50c. Not good for the components. 2648 reallocs is not good, but none pending suggests that any bad clusters have been successfully mapped out. Try a DFU restore and the "break up large transfers" method from Corrupt iPod classic.
tt2

Downloading music from ipod classic to external hard drive

Hi, Can anybody please tell me if its possible to download music from my classic to an external hard drive and would copyright issues be envolved perhaps stopping me downloading all the music. Most of the music is from my own CD's. Thanks.

While it is possible to put the music on an iPod onto an external drive, it isn't easy, and iTunes can't do it. You would need a third-party programme. Is the music not listed in your iTunes Library, and therfore, on your computer? Then all you would need to do is copy the files from their location on your computer to the external hard drive.
It should be on your computer, it's not wise to use the iPod as your only copy of your Library, since it's not designed to be a back up device.
As for copyright; this is actually a grey area, dependent upon which country you are in. In the UK for example, it is actually breaking copyright to put the CDs you own onto an iPod. But in reality, no one in the UK will be prosecuted since what they are doing is regarded as fair use. (I think these rules are about to change, in favour of the consumers.) I believe that in the USA, at least one lawyer has been trying to bring a prosecution based on "putting your CDs onto an iPod is copyright theft".
What is usually boils down to is this;
if you are making a copy for your own use, that's okay. But if you are making a copy for you to keep, while you then sell your original CDs to someone else, that's copyright theft.
Members of one household, i.e. brothers, sisters and children can share the music on CDs, without fear of copyright theft accusations. But if your brother moves out to his own home, then he no longer has a right to copies of your CDs.
Making a copy, by which you make profit, or deprive the copyright owner of income, is copyright theft. So lending your CD to a friend, who then makes a copy and returns the CD to you, is copyright theft, even if you made no money from this.

Hi,I'm trying to put all of the songs on my ipod classic to a hard drive for back up but it's only adding songs that I have purchased from the store but none of the albums that I put on from my cd collection.Is there a way to do this please?

Hi,I'm trying to put all the songs from my ipod classic onto an external hard drive,but it is only putting purchases from itunes onto hard drive and not any of my old cd's that I put onto the ipod manually.Am I doing something wrong?Thanks.

Since it has always been very basic to backup your computer and all it's data, Apple provides no way for you to transfer music from your iPhone back to your computer. As you know, you can re-download all iTunes purchases, but music that you ripped yourself you'll have to just re-rip again.
You can try and find 3rd party applications that might help you. I'm sure you'll pay, however.
Let this be a very important lesson learned.
Best.

Using iPod as an external hard drive

hi!
I'm planning on buying the iPod 80g. I was wondering if that iPod is good enough to be use as an external hard drive. Oh yeah! and I may transfere from mac to pc because my school got no mac :S thx for the help guy.

hi!
I'm planning on buying the iPod 80g. I was wondering
if that iPod is good enough to be use as an external
hard drive. Oh yeah! and I may transfere from mac to
pc because my school got no mac :S thx for the help
guy.
To do this you need a third party program, you can download one here at www.yamipod.com
kEat0n

Using iPod as an external hard drive while recording

I've found that using my older iPod photo as an external drive when recording seems to work really well for me. Has anyone else also experienced this?
Is this a good idea and can I run Reason 4 and other plug-ins from my iPod? If I do, should I daisy chain or use a PCMCIA Firewire card for it?
Thanks in advance for your answer.

It's not a good idea, iPod hard drives are not designed for sustained transfers like this and you will eventually kill it.
Given that external drives are so cheap, you are far better off getting a decently fast 7200rpm drive that is robust, rather than relying on the little 3600 drive (or whatever it is) in the iPod...

Using Ipod as a External Hard Drive for Downloading

Hi,
My question is, my computer is older and does not have a lot of storage space (18 GB). I would like to know if it is possible to download files (such as videos) from the web onto the Ipod and then using Itunes to play the files.
Any response is greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

If all of your existing library is on the iPod, the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. That would allow you to restore anything you'd bought from iTunes. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
The transfer of content from sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews and comparisons of some of them here:
Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
Comparison of iPod managers
TuneJack Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod2PC Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
SharePod Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
Floola Mac & Windows
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible - Windows version only)
There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available on page 2 at this link: Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide
I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

Transferring from iPod Classic to Second Hard Drive

My external hard drive crashed last week and I have songs on my iPod Classic. Can I transfer these songs to another hard drive easily? I'm afraid if I plug it in all my files will be wiped out.

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

Recently, I have been unable to import all of the "songs" or discs from multi-CD operas in itunes to my ipod classic or network hard drive. Only 1 or 2 discs import despite plenty of available space in both devices. Very frustrating! Any suggestions?

Recently, I have been unable to import all of the "songs" or discs from multi-CD operas in itunes to my ipod classic or Seagate network hard drive. Only 1 or 2 discs or 20 or so "songs" out of a total of 40 - 80 import despite plenty of available space in both devices. When I check itunes, each opera disc with all of the "songs" are listed. Very frustrating! Any suggestions?

right click on the songs that do transfer and select create aac version then re sync
Peace, Clyde

HT1386 using iPod nano with new hard drive after original crashed

My PC hard drive died. My iPod hasa bunch of music on it. I reloaded iTunes on my new drive. Now I can't load any music from iTunes to my iPod without erasing my current content. How do I fix this?

Transfer iTunes purchases by:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848?viewlocale=en_USiTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- Transfer othre music by using a third-party program like one of those discussed here:
Copy music
- To retain app data and other information, connect the iPod to yur computer and make a backup by right clciking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up
- Restore the iPod from that backup
Note that the Backup that iTunes makes does not include synced media like apps and music.

HT1766 How do I load music on new hard disk from Ipod Classic or old hard drive without doing it manually song by song?

How do I load music from IPod Classic onto new HDD without having to load each song separately?

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

I have been using my ipod classic as a hard drive whilst travelling, but at least half of the photo folders no longer show up when accessing the Ipod in My Computer

Hello All,
My concern is growing rapidly that i may have lost a large chunk photographs, i take some solice in the fact that when looking at the properties
of my Ipod the correct amount of memory is still being used thisa is the same when looking at memory usage in ITunes, however i do not seem to be able to
access them.
Could this be a FAT32 storage problem as this is the current format i have the Ipod in? should it try converting? Could this be an issue from using windows?
or could the files somehow have become hidden folders?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
BlackSeptember

On the main ipod screen in itunes check the manually manage ipod box.
I would personally keep the tracks on my laptop, the ipod HDD is less stable than the laptops.

Using ipod classic to store complete library to transfer to new hard drive:

My itunes files are about to outgrow my hard drive.
Can I use an ipod classic (7th gen) to store my entire library, and then, after installing a larger hard drive, "re-copy" my library from the ipod onto the new hard drive?
And would it retain the file structure from the original hard drive?
THANKS!!!

Hello thomaejacobi,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Yes. See this article for more assistance and instructions on how to do this. It says to a new computer, but is pretty much the same situation for you. Simply back everything up to your iPod, and then copy it back over once the new larger HD has been installed.
[How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1329?viewlocale=en_us]
And would it retain the file structure from the original hard drive?
Yes.
B-rock

Problem using iPod classic 20GB as hard drive

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