![]() You could get a couple of gig of songs on it and all would be fine. Briefly, if you restored it, it worked up to a point. On top of all that the hardrive started making a lot more noise, similar to normal but repeatedly and sometimes a high pitch buzz.Ī lot of details, but I just wanna be precise. Also the Ipod now shows i have only 200MB of free space, but I had like 40 GB before and everytime I disconnect from the PC the Ipod restarts and goes to original settings. Itunes won't recognize it, floola won't, I can't open the Ipod from my computer or even right click the icon. If i connect it to my PC it will show the ipod in my computer, but I can't do anything with it. ![]() It still plays most songs, with others it loads for a while and then skips. It wasn't high or anything but after that it turned really slow. I bought it second hand and it worked fine for a year, but today I dropped it. I have a similar problem with my IPod 6gen 80gb. While it won't be good news at least you'll know it isn't some random software problem and you can decide what to do next. If the numbers increase that again points to hard drive failure. Check your stats after another attempt to update your iPod. Large numbers of Reallocs or Pending Sectors would suggest your drive is failing and that you may need to repair or replace your iPod. Read errors on a sector will not remap the sector (since it might be readable later) instead, the drive firmware remembers that the sector needs to be remapped, and remaps it the next time it's written. If an unstable sector is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased and the sector is not remapped. Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors). Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. ![]() However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T.article: Reallocated Sectors CountĬount of reallocated sectors. Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. With modern disc drives sectors are no longer marked bad by a disc scan, if the SMART firmware detects a sector it has trouble accessing it will attempt to invisibly reallocate it to a spare area of the disc. When finished press SELECT & MENU for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again. For comparison here is a sample of mine from 6th Generation Classic after I'd had it for about 2 years. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button | HardDrive > HDSMARTData to reveal your stats. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. ![]() It's possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Skip the test or reset your iPod and do manual tests, which in any case will be more informative. Your computer might not have a FireWire port and even if it does, it's no use unless you have a FireWire iPod cable.
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