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Ipod video 5gen 30 gb connects to computer but gets weird error

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[Saint]:

--- Quote from: Jscap on January 09, 2011, 01:11:36 AM ---If you need more info, some of the songs on the last few albums I loaded onto it are having some trouble playing.

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File System errors can cause a whole host of "fun-to-debug" errors.
Playback issues and refusal to mount are just two of a long list...Have you tried verifying that the FS is free from errors?

You'll need to boot into the Apple FW to do this since it won't mount under Rockbox of course, you can achieve this on your iPod by holding Menu to boot the player from an off state, or by initiating the Hold switch immediately after powering the player on.

Hope this helps...


[St.]

Jscap:

--- Quote ---Have you tried verifying that the FS is free from errors?
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uhhh, I'm only a little tech savvy so a small tutorial would be nice. it connected when in ipod firmware but gets the same error when I try to open it through windows.

It is now telling me that I have to format the drive..... is there any ANY way to get around this?

OH, and you said something about file system errors and being able to debug them? How can I do this? will it let me keep my music?

Ok, It might come down to the fact that I can't rescue all my files, but if I could only rescue some of them would that be possible?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Jscap on January 09, 2011, 12:27:21 PM ---OH, and you said something about file system errors and being able to debug them? How can I do this? will it let me keep my music?

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In Windows, do the following:

- boot the Ipod into the Apple firmware or Emergency Disk Mode (see the IpodFAQ)
- connect it to the PC
- figure the drive letter the Ipod got assigned. Make sure Itunes is not running.
- click Start, then Run. Enter "cmd.exe" (without the quotes). Press Enter.
- type "chkdsk /f X:" (without the quotes, again). Replace X with the drive letter you figured earlier.

This will check the filesystem for errors. Obviously this only works if the filesystem is still recognized by Windows. If you get errors displayed you can tell chkdsk to fix them. This might work or might not, but with filesystem errors you can expect any kind of weird behaviour, so if there are any you should let chkdsk fix them.

Jscap:
"The type of the file system is RAW. chkdsk is not available for RAW drives."

AlexP:
So the partition table is corrupted, so Windows doesn't know what type of filesystem it is.  If you are lucky it is only this information and not the actual data so you can use a recovery tool to get the data back.  I can't recommend one, but if you type your error message into google there are thousands of hits.  For reference, your partition type should be fat32.

There is also the question of why - you could have just unplugged it at the wrong time (without safely remove), or it could be failing hardware.

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