Oops. I had the original iPod back in 2001 and had no idea they had reached 5th (or 6th) generation! When mine died (surviving two drops on the pavement and being thrown out of a loft!) I went to a 2nd gen iPod touch.
Stephen We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. > On 29 Nov 2013, at 20:50, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > ipod - not ipod touch is still a hard disk, and yeah they could go any time > now... Taking them apart is usually quite straight forward, you can also get > replacement batteries which would probably worth doing at the same time while > you have it open. my 5th gen is still going strong thankfully, and I've made > sure that it isn't the only copy of my music any longer. Ive opened older > ipods to read the data off without much incident so I doubt the 5th gen and > 6th gen will be much different. > > >> On 29 November 2013 20:33, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> It doesn't have an HD, it's solid state but I suppose it could be a similar >> problem. Is it still under guarantee? If not it must only be out of it ... >> Not that that helps get any data back (though it may all be in iTunes). >> >> Stephen >> >> We are Costa of Borg. We will add your vibrancy and distinctiveness to our >> own. Your town and your customers will service us. Resistance is futile. >> >>> On 29 Nov 2013, at 20:09, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi Smuggers >>> >>> My old iPod 5gen is stopping sync, saying 'data could not be read or >>> written'. Since it's named three different songs, looks like the HD. I >>> tried erasing it with disk utility (doesn't that notice bad blocks and >>> isolate them? What have I forgotten?) but it still chokes. >>> >>> >>> Suggestions for how to fix? (Just thought, maybe zero-write does it?). >>> >>> Found this >>> http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+5th+Generation+%28Video%29+CF+or+SDHC-SDXC+Memory+instead+of+HDD+Replacement/7492 >>> >>> And wondered about trying that. Anyone taken one of these apart? It doesn't >>> look fun, to be honest... >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Jason >>> ---------------------------------- >>> Sent from my iPad >>> ---------------------------------- >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
