So I'm on a family trip visiting relatives, and of course I get sucked into fixing everybody's goddamn computer while I'm over here. Anyhoo, I'm working on my aunt's iPod, I loaded it up with tons of music last time I came over here. After I left, she wanted more music so she took it to some moron who claimed to be an expert with iPods. She didn't see her iPod for a month, and when she got it back there was no music on it. It's been that way for a few months. When I plugged it in to my laptop, iTunes would crash and in windows explorer there were a bunch of empty folders with gibberish names when opening the drive. I figured whatever had happened to this iPod, the file system had been corrupted pretty badly. I tried formatting it but it says it is write protected. Now when I plug it in, it says the disk is 2TB even though it's only an 80GB. It won't format using the HP USB Format Tool - it says it is write protected.
The iPod won't boot. It keeps restarting, because it can't read anything off its own hard drive. I have to force it into Disk Mode to get it to show up as a drive when plugged into my laptop.
I'm at my wit's end here. All this thing needs is a good, zero level format so that the file system can be rebuilt. However, because of the write protection, I can't do that. Can you guys help, or recommend a good tool that can completely bomb this drive and make it readable again?
The iPod won't boot. It keeps restarting, because it can't read anything off its own hard drive. I have to force it into Disk Mode to get it to show up as a drive when plugged into my laptop.
I'm at my wit's end here. All this thing needs is a good, zero level format so that the file system can be rebuilt. However, because of the write protection, I can't do that. Can you guys help, or recommend a good tool that can completely bomb this drive and make it readable again?
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