ipod classic issue

qwertplaywert

Hi. got an old, battleaxe 80gb classic. Not been working great lately, usually only about to snch about 200 at most songs to it max without the whole operation ****ing up, which suits me grand, 200 is alright for planning a days listening.


but for the last few days, everytime i connect the ipod to the computer, itunes freezes. I've updated itunes, but same fault.reinstalled itunes, same fault. when i unplug the ipod usb from the computer , itunes starts working, and displays the message tellign me my ipod is corrupt or something, and i need to restore it using itunes.

But how am I supposed to restore it using iTunes when iTunes freezes every time I connect the ipod?!?

anyone have a clue on what I should do?

Ipod is about 2 years out of warrenty, so cant go down the apple route

qwertplaywert

0kay, got ipod into disk mode, connects to computer now but it keeps telling i have to restore ipod, i got to restore ipod, itunes extracts restoring thing then an error always occurs, wont restore ipod. Also when I connect ipod to computer, ipod goes into disk mode. is there any way to turn off disk mode? cant see the option available in itunes atm

qwertplaywert

anyone know what I could do?

djrlittleton

maybe give this a go

http://www.rockbox.org/

not sure if your hard disk is failing in the ipod or something else