Rez
01-10-2005, 05:57 PM
Hello all,
It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm in some dre need/help/advice.
Recently my Gen2 10gig ipod wasnt mounting correctly. Anytime I tried to mount it, I immediately got that "It's now ok to disconnect" message with the Check mark Icon.
After some fooling around, I was able to get it to mount, sometimes.
Well recently, I was ging t tr and see if there was a firmware update that I could try, it mounted, and noting happend.
Well got fed up and left it alone.
One day I decide I'm going to listen t some music while I walk to work. Go to my playlist and nada. Nothing there...wtf?!!?
I do a reset, and then nothing but the folder icon appears...after a few resets I was ale to get to the OS again with all of my options and what not.
I checked the "About" screen and it showed that 9 gigs were still in use and that I had 3mb of space left, and my contacts were still on the ipod, but no playlists or music could be accessible.
Sometimes, after a reset, I get the disc icon with the magnifying glass, then it goes to the Sad Mac icon...but after a few more resets it goes back to normal.
I was able to get it t mount in Windows just fine now, but locks up when I try t access it and iTunes won't see it at all.
My problem here is that all my music is on this thing. Recently the file store I had on some drives, fried. The computer I was using as my backup, had the PSU fizzle out, and the drives fr some reason arent accessible anymore. I'm sending them off to a fried who actually specializes in HDD restoration and he's going t do it for free...
I would like to try and prevent that however and see if there is some how I can retreive the data off the ipod somehow. The music is there, the space is being used...but is there anyting I can do on a hardware level to do this?
thanks for any help you can give me. I know the ipod at this point is probably dead, but data can be extracted..but how?
:rez
It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm in some dre need/help/advice.
Recently my Gen2 10gig ipod wasnt mounting correctly. Anytime I tried to mount it, I immediately got that "It's now ok to disconnect" message with the Check mark Icon.
After some fooling around, I was able to get it to mount, sometimes.
Well recently, I was ging t tr and see if there was a firmware update that I could try, it mounted, and noting happend.
Well got fed up and left it alone.
One day I decide I'm going to listen t some music while I walk to work. Go to my playlist and nada. Nothing there...wtf?!!?
I do a reset, and then nothing but the folder icon appears...after a few resets I was ale to get to the OS again with all of my options and what not.
I checked the "About" screen and it showed that 9 gigs were still in use and that I had 3mb of space left, and my contacts were still on the ipod, but no playlists or music could be accessible.
Sometimes, after a reset, I get the disc icon with the magnifying glass, then it goes to the Sad Mac icon...but after a few more resets it goes back to normal.
I was able to get it t mount in Windows just fine now, but locks up when I try t access it and iTunes won't see it at all.
My problem here is that all my music is on this thing. Recently the file store I had on some drives, fried. The computer I was using as my backup, had the PSU fizzle out, and the drives fr some reason arent accessible anymore. I'm sending them off to a fried who actually specializes in HDD restoration and he's going t do it for free...
I would like to try and prevent that however and see if there is some how I can retreive the data off the ipod somehow. The music is there, the space is being used...but is there anyting I can do on a hardware level to do this?
thanks for any help you can give me. I know the ipod at this point is probably dead, but data can be extracted..but how?
:rez