To all the computer wizards and geeks out there. Here's a question for ya. A good friend gave me an old 4th gen Ipod to use since my car stereo died. It has worked fine up till last Friday night. When I went to sync it up. It kept giving me errors that that songs were corrupt. Well I out of frustration I did a restore and it kept giving me the wall socket charging icon all weekend. Sunday I went to the Apple store in Crabtree and they got it back up and running. Sunday night my PC rebooted while the IPod was still connected. On reboot when windows was doing its check disk it did it for the Ipod as well. And there were lots of cross linked files. On Monday I looked at the txt file it created and it said there was about 5802 +/- bad sectors. I have a piece of software called spinrite that does the check disk like windows does but does it WAY WAY better then DOS or Windows ever could. I've used it in the past to fix my C:\> of my XP box. I was trying to use it last night to try and fix the 20gb hard drive in the IPod. Spinrite would not see it. It would see my master and my slave and even my external HD but not the IPod. I found nothing usefull in their manual or on their web site. And the one thing I see as a re occuring theme is opening up the IPod and getting a series of cables to plug it in as the slave drive in my PC and run Spinrite that way. My question to all you wizards and guru's and geeks is: Is there any other suggestions about getting spinrite to see the IPod's hard drive with out opening it. Thanks
You can try Putting your iPod into Disk Mode http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363 If that does not allow your program to run, i would run chkdsk on it and have the option to repair turned on. You can do this by opening a command prompt and typing "chkdsk I: /R" where "I" is the drive letter assigned by windows to your ipod. This would probably take several hours. If your music is backed up, you could format the ipod and reload your music. Lastly, if you see bad sectors, your drive might just be dying.
