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Did Rockbox corrupt my ipod harddrive?

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JaffaTheCake:
I updated Rockbox yesterday and was happy with the new additions such as icons in the menus etc.

However, I selected a song to play and it played the song after that one instead. I went back to the menu and selected the correct song and the player froze.

I rebooted the ipod and it frooze trying to load rockbox.ipod

I booted it into disk mode and connected it to my PC, it claimed the ipod was not formatted. I formatted it and now I'm running scan disk to look for bad sectors, but it's taking aaaages.

Reckon it's broken?

linuxstb:
It's very unlikely Rockbox physically damaged your hard drive - I'm not aware of any cases of that happening in Rockbox's five year history.

But ipods do break (with or without Rockbox), so yes, it's possible you have a hardware problem.

However, the most common reason for filesystem corruption will be to not safely disconnect your ipod from your computer after copying files to it.  How you do this depends on your operating system, but if you simply pull the plug then that's most likely the cause.

Let the scan disk finish, and then see what happens.

JaffaTheCake:
Meh, hard disk's dead. It thinks it formats but I get errors when trying to copy files to it.

Oh well. New ipod time.

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