IPod Video 5.5g 30gb Rockbox Bootloader Install Error

[neofox]

Hi people i wanted my IPod Video 5.5g (Model: MA146LL) tried to install Rockbox, but it always fails at the Bootloader.

The error message on Windows and Linux with Manuel

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ipodpatcher 5.0 with v4.0 bootloaders (v1.0 for 2nd Gen Nano)
(C) Dave Chapman 2006-2009
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Read XML info (9692 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod found - Video (aka 5th Generation) ("winpod") - disk device 2
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive2
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63        160649        78.4   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1          160650      58605118     28537.3   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Read XML info (9692 bytes)
[INFO] Ipod model: Video (aka 5th Generation) (32MB RAM) ("winpod")
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :i
[INFO] Using internal bootloader - 51988 bytes
[INFO] Moving images to create room for new firmware...
 Error reading from disk: [ERR]  Write failed
: Invalid argument
[ERR]  Image movement failed.
[ERR]  --install failed.
Press ENTER to exit ipodpatcher :

Does not matter if Manuel or with the utility. I try it with Windows 7 (64 bit) and Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit). IPod Format is fat32.
someone a idea for me?

edit:
Ok the Problem ist 64bit Version it works on my netbook with windwos XP 32bit

[AlexP]

Did you run with root rights?

[neofox]

yes i do it in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 as Admin/Root

[cork2win]

I am having this exact problem.  I have a 32 bit Vista machine logged in as Admin.  Ipod is Win Fat32.  Did anyone ever find a solution for this?

Attaching a screenprint of the ipodpatcher.exe window output.

[inlimbo]

I seem to be having this problem as well with my 80gb iPod Video. I'm using 32-bit Windows 7, and everything installs fine except the bootloader. Tried both the utility and ipodpatcher.exe. Made sure I was logged in as admin.

[gevaerts]

Do you have itunes installed? If so, make sure it's set up to allow disk access

[cork2win]

Yes, I have Itunes installed and it was entering disk mode just fine.  The player was working fine with the original software on it so I figured everything was OK with it (I bought it used).

I took it to work today to try loading Rockbox from there and same problem.  So I decided to give up and just convert my files to MP3.  Spent the afternoon doing that and loading some onto the player.  Plugged the player into my car on the way home and there were no songs on it, anywhere, after I copied about 200.  Got the player home and was going to continue loading songs.  I plugged the player into my laptop and it popped a message that said something was wrong with the player and I would have to reformat it, so I did.

After reformatting I figured I would try loading Rockbox again and this time it worked no problem. Currently copying my library to the player.

So, for me, apparently even though the player was working fine there must have been some issue with the formatting or existing software that was causing Rockbox install to fail.  Reformat solved that problem.

Maybe this will help someone else in the future with the same problem.