[X4U] Dead iPod

[Stroller]

On 19 Dec 2006, at 15:32, Richard Gilmore wrote:
> ...
> My iPod suddenly died yesterday ... it won’t mount and it makes an  
> ominous clicking sound like the hard drive is bad, which I hope is  
> not the case.

The clicking sound of a dead hard drive is VERY distinctive - if  
that's what it sounds like then that's surely what it is.

On the "mini" model of iPod - and I have no doubt this is the case  
with others - the hard-drive is easily replaced. I have no experience  
with this save that a customer's mini died in this way & they gave it  
to me (I think their insurance may have replaced it); the mini  
contains a small 2gig - 8gig 1" hard-drive in "compact card" format;  
I found that when I replaced this with a standard compact flash card  
from my camera & plugged it in to my Mac for the first time, iTunes  
immediately offered to update the iPod's firmware &/or format it. I  
was then invited to synchronise a selection of my music collection.

Stroller.