I got a 6th Gen iPod classic around mid November 2008. It's had no problems until now.
The problem started yesterday evening, when I noticed the playback was stuttering and dropping quite often. Then I noticed that navigating had started to become really slow, after selecting a folder it would take over a minute to show the folder. By then videos had become nigh on unplayable, it was stuttering so much.
The other thing I noticed was that the hard drive had become rather loud. Usually I could hear the HDD noise only when I pressed the thing up against my ear, but last night I could hear it clearly when I was holding it, and today I can hear it from the other side of my bedroom (no exaggeration).
Also starting this morning, playback failed completely. When I connected it to my computer to do a restore, I got an error, 1439 (I can't remember the message, sorry, and the iPod is now too dead to replicate the error), after which it failed. I tried to reformat, but My Computer said it was unformatted and wouldn't let me choose any file system to format it into. After I pressed Cancel, I got a window saying something along the lines that the drive could not be formatted. It was after that that my computer and iTunes stopped recognizing the iPod at all.
So now I have, for all intents and purposes, a dead iPod. The screen is stuck on the reboot screen with the Apple logo on it, the hard drive won't stop spinning and seeking, and no computer I have will recognize it.
The iPod's no longer covered by warranty, and I think it's safe to say that it's probably beyond all repair. Thoughts?
The problem started yesterday evening, when I noticed the playback was stuttering and dropping quite often. Then I noticed that navigating had started to become really slow, after selecting a folder it would take over a minute to show the folder. By then videos had become nigh on unplayable, it was stuttering so much.
The other thing I noticed was that the hard drive had become rather loud. Usually I could hear the HDD noise only when I pressed the thing up against my ear, but last night I could hear it clearly when I was holding it, and today I can hear it from the other side of my bedroom (no exaggeration).
Also starting this morning, playback failed completely. When I connected it to my computer to do a restore, I got an error, 1439 (I can't remember the message, sorry, and the iPod is now too dead to replicate the error), after which it failed. I tried to reformat, but My Computer said it was unformatted and wouldn't let me choose any file system to format it into. After I pressed Cancel, I got a window saying something along the lines that the drive could not be formatted. It was after that that my computer and iTunes stopped recognizing the iPod at all.
So now I have, for all intents and purposes, a dead iPod. The screen is stuck on the reboot screen with the Apple logo on it, the hard drive won't stop spinning and seeking, and no computer I have will recognize it.
The iPod's no longer covered by warranty, and I think it's safe to say that it's probably beyond all repair. Thoughts?
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