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I Killed my 60 gb ipod, yes I now have an overpriced 60 gb usb drive. (Fixed)

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linuxstb:
That's step 1) done, now continue with steps 2) and 3) from the page I linked you to...

betamaxman:
Will do, thanks again.
I am going to start from scratch again, realized in my haste I forgot to unmoumt the ipod before restoring the mbr.

betamaxman:
No luck, I first copied the mbr to /dev/sdc. Then the iPod_20.1.2.1.ipsw to /dev/sdc1, and then formated /dev/sdc2 to fat32 after umounting /dev/sdc2. Booted into windows, launched itunes. It now recogonized the ipod, or probably more correctly the ipod firmware and stated there was an ipod that needed to be restored. However after two hours it was clear it couldn't. Cpu usage goes to 100% with itunes running after the ipod is connected. Ipod patcher stated there was no ipod firmware in the correct partition, or something to that effect.

So is it usual for there to be two partitions, after /dev/xxx, for example /dev/xxx, /dev/xxx1, and /dev/xxx2? And ipod patcher's error would suggest that the firmware is not in the correct partition. Should I try again to just /dev/sdc?
 
Any way the itunes restore experience is exactly what was happening before I deleted and  recreated a new fat partition in sdc via suse's yast partitioning tool. So I am thinking the ipod partition table is messed up, or the ipod is having hard ware woes as well. Also before I monkeyed with formating in yast, I could not as admin in windows (after a fresh install of xp)  delete either the .rockbox or ipod folders. And when back in windows itunes did sync it could not delete any of the previous music only add music, and the space occupied by the music was shown as unknown. This was after a fresh install of windows.

Does the mbr patch include the propper partition table, or do I need to find the partition table and dd that as well?

Thanks for your help thus far. I am hopping that if all fails I can return the ipod for warranty repair or replacement. Should be good to go other than if partitioning is incorrect.

linuxstb:

--- Quote from: betamaxman on May 15, 2007, 12:57:53 PM ---No luck, I first copied the mbr to /dev/sdc. Then the iPod_20.1.2.1.ipsw to /dev/sdc1, and then formated /dev/sdc2 to fat32 after umounting /dev/sdc2.

--- End quote ---

That was the mistake.  The .ipsw file is in fact a ZIP file - you need to unzip it (type "unzip iPod_20.1.2.1.ipsw" at the Linux prompt) and you'll then get a Firmware-X.Y.Z file.  It's that file that you write to /dev/sdc1

That's mentioned on the wiki page - the instructions are brief, so you need to read them closely.

betamaxman:
I should of realized that with out a wiki, I will try again after work tonight thanks again.

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