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Ipod Fix...

Posted Feb 25 2007 - 7:37pm by samccone
Filed under 4g | iPod


Everyone has or eventually will experience the dreaded click.... click... click... noise of their ipod's hard drive when its eventual death has come to be. I recently discovered by 1. Simply opening your ipod 2. Disconnecting your drive ,  3. Turning the ipod back on and letting it boot until it gives you an error 4. Turning off the ipod 5. reconnecting the drive and 6. Turning the ipod back on will fix it....

I have no idea why this works but i have had 100% success with 3 ipods; 4g; 3G; and ipod mini

Try it.. let me know how you fare
and by the way this voids your warranty

Sam

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data

Jason Striegel's picture

Very cool. Was the data still there or did this case the drive to be format/re-initialized? That makes me curious about what the problem was... Usually that clicking noise is a telltale sign of a hardware problem on a drive.

Keep us updated. I'd like to hear how long the drives keep going after they've been resucitated.

By Jason Striegel at February 26, 2007 - 3:53am | login or register to post comments | email this page

data, definitely

Stella's picture

definitely keep us updated on the longevity of your ipods after the fix.

i can't think of any other clicking sound i fear the most. hey, if you figure out a fix for failing computer hard drives just let me know :)

By Stella at February 26, 2007 - 10:06am | login or register to post comments | email this page

Data was still there

samccone's picture

When i plugged the hard drive in they started perfectly and all the data was still there!

all three are still working three days later...

By samccone at February 26, 2007 - 1:06pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

really?

Stella's picture

NICE!

By Stella at February 26, 2007 - 1:26pm | login or register to post comments | email this page

ipod fix..

I have 2 dead ipods.

I tried your fix on one of them and its going well. I passed the sad face icon stage (never got past that before), and it linked to iTunes (took a while though).

Unfortunately I had to restore it. But thats OK as its never even gotten that far before.

It asked me to plug it into a wall adapter to charge the battery as the battery is flat.
Now I have to wait for it to charge up and reload it.

Then the real test is using it in the field again... So far so good..Thanks for the post!

By arthur c clarke at August 11, 2007 - 4:05am | login or register to post comments | email this page

i have a 30G...do you think

i have a 30G...do you think it will work with that type too..
and if so..
can you explain step by step what to do..

By A.Patterson at January 14, 2008 - 12:24am | login or register to post comments | email this page