iPod Crapping out During Sync

senordingdong

I'm having a perculiar problem with my ipod classic lately.

It will sync the library from the computer, up to a certain point, but then it craps out and wipes itself clear altogether.
I've been able to get music onto very slowly by manually dropping and dragging smaller quantities of music at a time, but if I drop and drag too much at a time, the problem repeats.

It's obviously not a capacity problem but maybe there is something wrong with the data transmission mechanism as opposed to the hard drive?

I've thought about replacing the HD but the cost of doing that relative to the cost of a new ipod is abit off putting tbh. Especially since I'm not sure if that is actually where the fault lies.


Has anybody any familiarity with this kind of fault?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Zcott

Sounds a lot like a hard drive failure. I had something similar with an iPod Classic and eventually it would refuse to restore properly. And unfortunately the options were either hard drive replacement or iPod replacement.

endacl

Zcott wrote: »

Sounds a lot like a hard drive failure. I had something similar with an iPod Classic and eventually it would refuse to restore properly. And unfortunately the options were either hard drive replacement or iPod replacement.

Same here. HD kaput.

senordingdong

Godamnit.

Well I guess that's that then.
Can anybody recommend somewhere to get it replaced for a reasonable price?

endacl

senordingdong wrote: »

Godamnit.

Well I guess that's that then.
Can anybody recommend somewhere to get it replaced for a reasonable price?

Look on the bright side. Opportunity to upgrade to higher capacity. I doubled the storage space on my classic. I won't recommend the place that did it though. Nightmare to deal with. Took them three goes to fix it.

senordingdong

endacl wrote: »

Look on the bright side. Opportunity to upgrade to higher capacity. I doubled the storage space on my classic. I won't recommend the place that did it though. Nightmare to deal with. Took them three goes to fix it.

Capacity was never an issue.
Cash flow is though.

endacl

senordingdong wrote: »

Capacity was never an issue.
Cash flow is though.

I hear ya. I like the ipod. I'm not blindly loyal to Apple though. Perhaps you should consider the competition? A solid state device won't ever have hd issues. Plus you get a new toy for less than the price of a repair. Pixmania have sandisk players on offer at the moment.

senordingdong

They're all very small capacity aren't they though?

I'm not an apple loyalist either but it's what I already have, so I'll just try to sync it one album at a time or something.

Thanks

endacl

senordingdong wrote: »

They're all very small capacity aren't they though?

I'm not an apple loyalist either but it's what I already have, so I'll just try to sync it one album at a time or something.

Thanks

Ah maaaaannnn....

I tried that. And it worked. Right up to the point when it didn't. Sometimes ten albums. Sometimes a hundred. You'll keep going each time until it goes bang. You'll waste hours and drive yourself nuts. Don't do it.

I've been that soldier...

Zcott

Get in touch with a couple of repair places and see how much they'll charge for a disk replacement.

senordingdong

endacl wrote: »

Ah maaaaannnn....

I tried that. And it worked. Right up to the point when it didn't. Sometimes ten albums. Sometimes a hundred. You'll keep going each time until it goes bang. You'll waste hours and drive yourself nuts. Don't do it.

I've been that soldier...

Well, I'll get a few on. Just to tide me over until I can save up enough for a new disk or ipod.

endacl

senordingdong wrote: »

Well, I'll get a few on. Just to tide me over until I can save up enough for a new disk or ipod.

Set a target and stick to it!

senordingdong

endacl wrote: »

Set a target and stick to it!

Nokia mix radio is going to have to do me until then.