Ipod diagnostics, whats a RETRACT? in smrt scan or whatever

[0roo0roo]

got a 4rth gen ipod with trouble connecting to itunes or the computer at all in disc mode. so i stick it in diagnostics, oddly enough it passes everything including the harddrive scan. theres a harddrive smart report which i guess is the same as the s.m.a.r.t. on ide drives. the number that isn't zero is retracts, and the first time i checked it was 42, now its 52. that a sign of a dead or dying drive? itunes ipod update failed because it said something about corruption.


anyone try replacing their drive before?

 

[ForumMaster]

did you try a restore? sometimes that works. i ahd this one ipod mini with a known bad drive (it failed the test) and i managed to restore it with itunes 7. of course i can't do anything with it but it works. (turns on and stuff like that). try that. if you neeed a drive, may i recomment our own elite member's site www.ifixipodsfast.com for any ipod related problems. there you can pick up a drive, send it in for diagnostic and have paulson replace your drive.

 

[0roo0roo]

ah, yea i tried restore, it said the directory or something was corrupt and failed. the drive seems to spin up and spin down like its failing too. and when i plug it in it takes forever to detect if at all, and slows down the system, which seems to be what a bad drive would do.

thanks for the site link. those toshiba drives just use a normal laptop ide to normal harddrive ide connector adptor right? would be nice for testing the thing

 

[ForumMaster]

yeah that sound like what happened with my borked mini. sounds like a bad drive.