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Title: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 14, 2008, 09:10:44 AM

ok I have a 4gen grayscale ipod and I was listining to it yesterday and then I turned it off. Now when I turn it on either a sad face comes up a half charging screen or a folder with an excalmation point. disk mode wont work it only worked once last night is there any way to fix this??????

Title: Re: RE:HELPMEURGENT
Post by: LambdaCalculus on March 14, 2008, 09:15:17 AM

It sounds to me like one of two things:

1) You need to let the battery charge up, or

2) You have a dying hard drive; my 4G iPod color has a bad drive as well and doesn't spin up occasionally, giving me a "sad iPod" when it fails to spin up.

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 14, 2008, 09:22:42 AM

so is my ipod completely bricked?

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: saanaito on March 14, 2008, 09:26:29 AM

It's not bricked. As Calculus said, your hard drive is probably dying. If that's the case, I believe it is possible to order a new HDD and manually replace the bad one.

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 14, 2008, 09:31:43 AM

Oh well about two secdonds ago my ipod went into disk mode but before i could open itunes it reset itself

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: MarcGuay on March 14, 2008, 09:32:57 AM

http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/earlier/

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 15, 2008, 09:35:43 AM

well in have no ipod at the moment ( I got sick of my U2 ) and so I threw it at a wall at school yesterday but ill be picking up a new one soon hopefully touch but possibly 2 gig shuffle

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 15, 2008, 09:36:57 AM

Is there an ipod in stores right now that will work with rockbox?

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: AlexP on March 15, 2008, 10:56:17 AM

None of the models currently in production work with rockbox, but I suppose you might get lucky nd find an old model.

Please use the modify button if no-one has posted since you, rather than double posting.

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: rockboxacdc on March 18, 2008, 07:47:44 PM

well my grandma came over and gave me a sansa clip is there any hacks for that?

Title: Re: Help Me ipod has no disk mode!!!!
Post by: Febs on March 18, 2008, 08:03:24 PM

The Sansa Clip does not run Rockbox, if that's what you are trying to ask.

Since this thread no longer has anything to do with disk mode on an iPod, I'm going to close it.