Imaging the HDD on iPod 5G video

[npaisnel]

Lets see if I am posting this in the correct forum, I looked at the others, but this seemd the most suitable to me.

Before I start mucking around with the iPod too much, I would like to create a disk image of the HDD.
 I have used Acronis disk image on other USB plugged Hard drvies, but the iPod is not showing up in it.  It does appear in explorer, but not in Acronis.

Anyone know what is a good tool to use?

Thanks

Neil

[AlexP]

Has your ipod been assigned a drive letter (if you are using Windows)?

If not, you need to put it in disk mode in itunes first I would imagine.

[npaisnel]

Yes, windoze  and Yes, it has been assigned a drive letter,and is visible in windows. But not in acronis True Image, although other USB drives are visible.

I am totally new to the iPod, bought it second hand two days ago for £20, solely to try out Rock Box.
Never had a iPod or anything similar before.

Not so happy about the photo viewing capabilities,seems very slow, with big files, must have to re size them or something...anyway that is a new topic.

Want to know I can get the HDD back to factory if I reformat it or at least get an image of it before re formatting

[GodEater]

This doesn't really seem to be a question for us, but rather for the providers of the software you're trying to use.

If you want to take a complete image of the drive you could just use dd (available for windows and linux).

[npaisnel]

Ok, IO see what you are saying, but if you check back to my original post, the question was

Anyone know what is a good tool to use?

The other software does not seem to work, so I was asking if anyone has any idea of what else might be available.  It was not a help request regarding the software I have.

So you say dd.  Tha would be dd as the Linux /unix command I am assuming.  Cheers I will give it a go.