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iPod wiping itself clear - help

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Cel

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8/30/2006 1:45 PM
I'm devastated. Switched on my i pod this morning and there was nothing there. Over 30 g of music missing. Its like losing a child. Whats the story? Do i pods usually do this? AAAAAAAHHHHHHH...

Mully

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8/30/2006 1:49 PM
quote: Originally posted by Cel I'm devastated. Switched on my i pod this morning and there was nothing there. Over 30 g of music missing. Its like losing a child. Whats the story? Do i pods usually do this? AAAAAAAHHHHHHH... Occassionally have the problem with my iRiver ... Simple restart does the trick.

klootfan

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8/30/2006 1:49 PM
Jaysus... that sounds terrible... have you tried connecting it to a PC/MAC to see if it might all be still there. I think it unlikely that they could all have been deleted.

Cel

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8/30/2006 2:05 PM
quote: Originally posted by klootfan Jaysus... that sounds terrible... have you tried connecting it to a PC/MAC to see if it might all be still there. I think it unlikely that they could all have been deleted. The pc won't recognise it - it just keeps stalling. I was having trouble with it last week and had to keep restarting it. Then it started making very strange sounds when it was switched off. I reckon i have lost it all. Must have re-set itself or something.

kavobaggins

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8/30/2006 2:10 PM
quote: Originally posted by Cel quote: Originally posted by klootfan Jaysus... that sounds terrible... have you tried connecting it to a PC/MAC to see if it might all be still there. I think it unlikely that they could all have been deleted. The pc won't recognise it - it just keeps stalling. I was having trouble with it last week and had to keep restarting it. Then it started making very strange sounds when it was switched off. I reckon i have lost it all. Must have re-set itself or something. happens to me bout once a fortnight. just keep trying to reset it and to be honest most of the time, it starts working itself. Check the warrenty on the apple site. I know it wont get the songs back but you might get it fixed for free.

klootfan

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8/30/2006 2:18 PM
quote: happens to me bout once a fortnight. just keep trying to reset it and to be honest most of the time, it starts working itself. Oh be vary careful here. Remember there is a hard drive in your iPod. Ive broken an iRiver through similar circumstances. Plugging your iPod out of yor mac/pc without properly first ejecting it on the Mac/Pc can seriously damage your player. What might have happened in this case is that the drive in the iPod has been damage at the start of the disk and therefore the filesystem may have been corrupted. I had something similar happen, a noise occurs in player like its skipping tracks. Im afraid in my case it was fatal. But im only surmising that something similar might have happen in yours.. heres hoping it hasnt

Richie

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8/30/2006 3:08 PM
This happened my girlfriend's I-Pod as well. She brought it into the Apple shop in London and they pretty much said "Oh yeah, that's f*cked, here's a brand new one for you". No receipts. No questions asked. Nothing. She brought it home, hooked it up to the PC, and hey presto, I-Tunes loaded all 15gigs of her music back on automatically. Granted, we live in London, so I'm not sure how much, if any, use this is to you.

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8/30/2006 3:13 PM
Sounds like a h/drive issue. I'm tellin' ya, those things are divils for that.

Binokular

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8/30/2006 6:37 PM
This is why I don't bother with HD based players. You can get 4GB SD cards these days and samsung created the first commercially available solid state storage laptop recently (i.e. no hard disks, all flash memory). It's only a matter of time before hard disks are obsolete for anything other than desktop PC and Servers storage.