Defragmenting

[han310]

Hi
This was probably mentioned in another thread
but i dont want to go crawling through the different topics looking for it
Other forums have a search thing that is useful...

anyway
Earlier this month i mentioned in another forum that my ipod made a loud scratchy sound
and other users screamed at me to return it. I havent returned it and it works so-so.
I had only 1 instant this month where i had to restore. Another instant i tried to sync a movie and the scratchy sound came up again. I just didnt sync it because i didnt want to resync everything again. Just today i tried syncing and it synced perfectly.

Will defragmenting my ipod help with the sync problem? Has this happened to any1 else?
Thanks in advance for any responses.

[jhollington]

Other forums have a search thing that is useful...
You mean like this button in the top-right corner.... :)

http://homepage.mac.com/jhollington/photos/iLounge/ilounge-search.png

Earlier this month i mentioned in another forum that my ipod made a loud scratchy sound and other users screamed at me to return it. I havent returned it and it works so-so.
I had only 1 instant this month where i had to restore. Another instant i tried to sync a movie and the scratchy sound came up again. I just didnt sync it because i didnt want to resync everything again. Just today i tried syncing and it synced perfectly.
I'm not sure quite what you mean by "scratchy" sound, but if you're actually getting a loud noise from the mechanisms within the iPod itself that would be a very bad indication of imminent failure, and you probably should take the iPod back.

Assuming that the noise is coming from the hard drive itself, defragmenting is unlikely to help anything, as this sort of behaviour would not be caused by a fragmentation problem, but more likely with some physical problem with the drive. About the only thing that defragmenting is likely to do is to improve performance on your iPod itself in cases where you're very frequently loading and unloading content.

Since the iPod is just an external hard drive, however, you could try running Scandisk or CHKDSK on it as a diagnostic and see what that comes back with. Your sync problems are most likely related to a problem with the drive, which could range from a mechanical problem to something as simple as a bad sector on the drive.

Again, however, if the noises are loud, this is most likely a hardware problem, and is unlikely to be solvable by anything that you can do to it through software.

[han310]

haha
i didnt see the button on the top right corner
a very useful button... XD

I just ran the chkdsk on my ipod
and it came up with no errors
does that mean that theres nothing
wrong with the disk? or something else?
could the computer be the problem?
Thanks

[Sephiroth]

Your i pod's busted mate. I guess its time for you to get a new one, or get it replaced if it is still under warranty.