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How to recover from a partitioned iPod
Authored by: kaih on Mar 12, '05 07:49:28PM
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!)
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdiskX
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.

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How to recover from a partitioned iPod
Authored by: goldenja on Mar 23, '05 11:06:16AM

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...

I tried entering that command in terminal using the previous name of my ipod, but it asks me for a password. I tried my user passport, but no go. Any ideas?

Or, alternatively, any idea of how I can get my iPod back to it's original state (even if it erases everything?)



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How to recover from a partitioned iPod
Authored by: pfclark on May 04, '06 05:57:05PM

Hi, any ideas about this if the disk doesn't come up in the terminal? I type in "mount" and I get:

/dev/disk1s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/Secondo (local, journaled)
automount -nsl [207] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [212] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [212] on /automount/static (automounted)

Do how do I know what to do the sudo on?

Thanks in advance.



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