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How to recover from a partitioned iPod
dd is your friend =)
In this case, with the iPod plugged in, you could execute the mount command in Terminal to see which device the iPod was mounted on. Then do a (WARNING, this will wipe your iPod COMPLETELY!)
where /dev/rdiskX is the device you identified the iPod as being mounted on previously, to write zeroes to the iPod's disk. Let this run for just a couple of seconds. This blows away the partition map and any of the small partitions at the start of the disk, returning it to a clean, totally unformatted state.Do the same with disks as well. I've had hard disks, generally external FireWire ones, that sometimes after something going wrong, nothing will want to look at the disk, even Disk Utility, and I've been able to recover the disk in this fashion. ---
How to recover from a partitioned iPod
OK, so I managed to completely FUBAR my ipod in Disk Utility...won't show up on my Mac in iTunes, or as a disk on the desktop...
How to recover from a partitioned iPod
Hi, any ideas about this if the disk doesn't come up in the terminal? I type in "mount" and I get: |
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