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Could you block copy another iPod to get around this?
Authored by: Twelve on May 29, '03 11:06:14AM

Get your iPod, a borrowed healthy iPod, and a Mac running OSX.

run ls \dev\d* to see what disk devices exist with no iPods attached.

Attach the healthy iPod.

run ls \dev\d* to see what the new disk device is called. Presumably, this is the healthy ipod.

Attach the broken iPod and see what its device label is.

Run dd if=\dev\rdisN of=\dev\diskQ where N is the healty iPod and Q is the broken one. You might read man dd to find out other helpful options.

You should have a perfect block by block clone of the healthy iPod when this is done. You could then use the Firmware updater for good measure.



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Could you block copy another iPod to get around this?
Authored by: merlyn on May 29, '03 01:14:05PM

Ow ow ow! All those \ should be /!



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Carbon Copy Cloner
Authored by: matx666 on May 29, '03 01:24:32PM

Or try carbon copy cloner?



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Could you block copy another iPod to get around this?
Authored by: juump on Jan 17, '04 08:37:18PM

Thank you for this tip! I did the same stupid thing to my 40GB iPod, and wound up with a very expensive FW drive--that only thought it had 5GB of space on it. Pretty much a $500 paperweight.

However, I used Carbon Copy Cloner, as another poster suggested, and while it "failed" running out of room, it did put in the necessary files for the updater to reset the iPod. (Interestingly, it listed the 10G iPod's Serial Number until it restarted.)

Finally, "Reset" worked, and I was left with an empty 40GB iPod. So 12GB of songs lost, but who cares? It works again!



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