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dawnchorus

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 8, 2013
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Mac says "you've got an iPod that appears to be corrupted" and asks me to restore - upon doing so, I get the message "unable to write to the last block of the device". When I open DiskUtility, it says SMART status is not verified, and size of the drive is 8kb. I disconnect it and reconnect again, now DiskUtility says the size of the drive is 17.59 TB. (It's a 160GB iPod classic, out of warranty).

Does anyone have advice for how to save this? I really can't afford another iPod anytime soon. Right now it's in Disk Mode and seems frozen on the "Ok to Disconnect" screen. Thanks.
 

Thraun

macrumors regular
Dec 18, 2008
159
41
Abbotsford, BC
Honestly, it sounds like a bad hard drive, and unfortunately there's nothing you can do about that. That's the downside of the classics. Superior storage, inferior durability.
 
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