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I've had my 40gb color display iPod for just over two years. For the last month it has been freezing on me while I'm listening to a song. It usually seems to happen when I change songs quickly for some reason. Once it freezes it usually won't start up again by reset but will once I plug it into my computer. I have already reinstalled the software and reloaded all of the songs (losing all of my playlist info as I use manual sync and used Senuti to copy my iPod library to an external drive). I also repaired the disk using Apple Disk Utility and also rebuilt the library using DiskWarrior. After all of the this I thought I had fixed the problem but it still happens on occasion. At this point I was convinced that I had HD problems, but puttin the iPod in diagnostic mode I ran most of the tests and they came out okay. How can I ascertain that my HD is really okay? Do I need to erase the disk completely and start over from there? How exactly do I do this?
Thanks for the help.
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