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Problems installing Samsung 128gb SATA SSD in iPod 5.5

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BXP:
Hi. I recently picked up a cheap 1.8" Samsung micro SATA 128GB SSD (MMCRE28GTMXP-MVB) that I thought would be nifty to drop into a custom-cased 5.5 gen iPod video. Looking around I found a ZIF to micro SATA adapter (this one here http://www.amazon.com/1-8-Micro-SATA-Female-Adapter/dp/B004FD5B9I ) that would appear to allow the iPod to talk to the SSD, though I suppose that's not a given. I formatted the SSD to FAT32 before hooking it all up to the iPod and giving it a go.

Problem is, the iPod with the SSD and adapter doesn't want to boot. I can place the iPod in disk mode, and connect to the computer, and here's where it gets a little funny. Windows sees an ipod under the device listing, but only recognizes an unformatted disk drive in windows explorer. Going to disk management shows an unformatted drive with 1.85TB capacity (yes, T B, thought that was odd). When windows tries to format the iPod/SSD combo, it works at it a minute and returns "The disk in drive D cannot be formatted". Tried through iTunes as well, just locks up.

So I'm stumped, wondering if anybody has any thoughts. My guess is that the adapter is mucking up something, as the SSD works just fine hooked up solo through USB, but I guess it could be a lot of things. Anyone tried anything like this before?


 

Chronon:
I'm pretty sure the iPod doesn't support SATA.  All of the drives I'm aware of that work are PATA.

BXP:
Well, that was the thought behind the adapter. My other thought was maybe I'd formatted the drive incorrectly, anyone have info on how to properly setup and partition an iPod drive under windows, or even better, a screen shot of the drive on disk management?

I realize this may all be futile, but I'd hate to just throw in the towel without trying everything reasonably possible.

Chronon:
Restoring in iTunes is the easiest way to create the proper partition layout and formatting.

None of the wording on the page that you linked indicates that the adapter converts from SATA to PATA, so the functionality of this adapter wasn't clear to me.

yapper:
The product description mentions "This unit allows a 1.8 Micro SATA Drive to be used with a PATA interface."

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