Is there a way to reformat your iPod's hard drive? Options

[Dogmeat]

the hard drive on my iPod is apaprently hosed.

Probably from using it whilst driving down rough roads. I'm pretty sure the disk is physically damaged.

Is there a way, a utility from Apple or somone, that you can basically 'reformat' the drive so the firmware knows what sectors and tracks on the drive are bad and hence knows to not write to them, or is this concept totally lost on Apple because it makes sense and god forbid they release a produce that makes sense....


heh

[pebkac]

the hard drive on my iPod is apaprently hosed.

Probably from using it whilst driving down rough roads. I'm pretty sure the disk is physically damaged.

Is there a way, a utility from Apple or somone, that you can basically 'reformat' the drive so the firmware knows what sectors and tracks on the drive are bad and hence knows to not write to them, or is this concept totally lost on Apple because it makes sense and god forbid they release a produce that makes sense....
heh

If the disk is physically damaged, you probably need to have it repaired. But you can test it for physical damage to determine if that's the case:

http://www.onflex.org/ted/2005/02/death-of-ipod.php

[Dogmeat]

I'm pretty sure it's bad.

Guess I'm out $400.

Wow, Apple makes such great products

I'm buying a fucking Zune.

[pebkac]

I'm pretty sure it's bad.

Guess I'm out $400.

Wow, Apple makes such great products

I'm buying a fucking Zune.

...

You just said:

the hard drive on my iPod is apaprently hosed.

Probably from using it whilst driving down rough roads. I'm pretty sure the disk is physically damaged.

Of course if you buy an HDD based iPod that's going to happen. And I'm pretty sure that if you buy an HDD based Zune the same thing will happen. Once a drive is physically damaged, it's toast if it's a Zune or an iPod.

Next time buy a flash based player.

[Dogmeat]

If the firmware supports it, as has been the case with IDE and SCSI drives for the last century, you can map bad sectors and tracks and basically bad sections of the disk and then the operating system will know not to try to access those portions of the disk.

Apparenty this concept everyone has known about for the last century was lost on Apple because they are too busy inventing crappy technology that makes ding dongs go "OooOOoOOooohhh YAY!" or whatever it is that they do

I'm willing to bet the Zune has this capability built into it so if something like this were to happen to the disk and it was to be physically damaged the the OS would know to try to avoid writing to that portion of the disk

[Dogmeat]

but on a side note, the instructions on that site don't work.

I've been doing the <, center and > buttons just like it says and it's not doing anything but rebooting.

[Oasis]

Yeah, you can

Plug it in to the USB cord then go to My Computer and reformat that drive. It'll wipe everything clean from your ipod

[pebkac]

If the firmware supports it, as has been the case with IDE and SCSI drives for the last century, you can map bad sectors and tracks and basically bad sections of the disk and then the operating system will know not to try to access those portions of the disk.

Apparenty this concept everyone has known about for the last century was lost on Apple because they are too busy inventing crappy technology that makes ding dongs go "OooOOoOOooohhh YAY!" or whatever it is that they do

I'm willing to bet the Zune has this capability built into it so if something like this were to happen to the disk and it was to be physically damaged the the OS would know to try to avoid writing to that portion of the disk

I stand corrected:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...060309131841101

Try that out.

The diagnostic mode works on mine, but I have a nano, so the tests would be different.