Well, to start off, I'm pretty sure i know what the problem is, but I'm not exactly sure. I accidently dropped my iPod twice on a hard floor while it was playing and from there it started acting funky. It would only play the first few seconds of a song then would skip around for another few seconds until finally skipping to the next song. So I figured, why not plug it into my computer (PC) and let it fix any corrupted data. I did this only to find out that my pc didn't like my ipod anymore and the only thing that saw it was the iPod updater and that freezes everytime that i plug it into the computer. So restoring it is a non capability. Luckily, my father has a Blue&White G3 that i can use so i plugged it into that and it saw it and let me restore it, i can only add songs thru iTunes manually now on the mac and i still have the skipping problem i had when i first dropped it. My dad said that the internal hard drive prolly had a head crash and corrupted the hard drive, is that what happened? and is there any hope for my iPod to pull thru this and work normally again? btw i have an iPod 4th Generation and i tried the 5 R's and EVERYTHING i could find on Apple's website and nothing worked. ANY help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance for any I recieve... [Edit] I also tried using the Mac disk utilities to find and repair any damages on the iPod and it won't even let me scan it, it says that it can't be unmounted
Your father's probably right. The hardrive sounds pretty broken to me. What you might want to give a try is reformatting the drive on your PC to FAT 32. Try plugging your iPod into your PC then going to 'My Computer' and right clicking on your iPod. If it has the option to reformatt to FAT 32 then use that.
it completely freezes anything i try on the PC, when i right click it in My Computer, the menu doesnt even appear and explorer crashes so anything on the PC doesnt sound to well to try to me...
That is a pretty major problem. This is most likely a hardrive error and the iPod can't identify itself to your PC so it throws it for a loop. Being that the restore on the Mac didn't help the situation that's probably the problem.
well, i plugged it into my dad's PC now and since it doesnt have the iPod software loaded onto it, it doesnt freeze up at all and it lets me go into the formatting tool and i have it running and so far no progress on that but it may take awhile considering its a 20GB iPod... [Edit] Well that didn't work, just sat there and did nothing until it crashed... [Edit] It let me do a "Quick Format" and now its readable by my dad's PC and lets me check with the "Error Checking" utility which is currently running on it... [Edit] Ok, well i did all that and the "Error Check" froze so i decided to give it another go on my computer, and it actually let me restore it, it then recognized it within iTunes but would only load about 124 songs out of my 1605 songs saying that they could not be loaded because they will not work on my iPod, and it began to update and froze the computer and then restarted the system. I think i'm going to just save up and buy a Video iPod...
hey i have the same problem ur having,but with the exception that i havent droped my ipod.my computer sees it but it doesnt do anything. i tried formating it but when i choose format it doesnt do anything.if you find a fix let me know.
