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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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