[X4U] Dead iPod

[Richard Gilmore]

Good news sort of...I plugged the iPod into my Mactel at work and ran the
iPod updater and it brought it back to life except that I lost all my music,
which is mostly on my G5 so I only lost a little bit. But I plugged it back
into my G5 and it went dead again. So I did a restore again from my Mactel
for a second time and it's now working again. I'm in the process of
transferring my music from G5 To Mactel and loading it back to iPod. But now
I have to figure out why my G5 is breaking it?

Any clues? Should I delete iTunes would something be corrupt? Preference
file? Is there anything I could/should delete to start off fresh on the G5?

Thanx

Richard


On 19/12/06 7:12 PM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> 
> On 19 Dec 2006, at 15:32, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>> ...
>> My iPod suddenly died yesterday ... it won¹t 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.
> 
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Richard Gilmore
Media Production Centre
Faculty of Education
University of Western Ontario
rgilmor at uwo.ca


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