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One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
There are softwares for isolating bad blocks.
One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
I've used Media Scanner from Intech's SpeedTools Utilities (the OEM version included with an OWC FireWire drive) to check for bad blocks. It helped me convince Apple to replace a drive with too many errors to repair. I've never tested it on an iPod drive but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.
One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
Intech Software's SpeedTools has an excellent utility for mapping out bad blocks. The price is steep but that and the other utlities in the package make it a must-have powertool. Some HD vendors bundle an OEM version.
One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
I tried Media Scanner v1.1 (now at v2.1) and it found a bad block, but when I tried to reassign it, Media Scanner quit immediately. Repeated this a couple times to no avail. Running Disk utility to write Zeros also just hangs when it reaches a bad block.
Fixed by paritioning iPod hard drive!
As a follow up, I gave up on trying to use this method and found a couple links online regarding formatting the iPod into multiple partitions:
http://www.macgeekery.com/node/6 http://www.bsodmike.com/?page_id=13 Using a combination of info from both of these, I was able to render the first 6GBs of my 20GB iPod as allocated for the firmware, and the remaining for music. Took me about 3 hours to figure out how to do this, but once I got the hang of it, it was fairly straightforward and i was able to repeat the procedure several times. At first i used a 4 GB partition for the firmware, but hit some more bad blocks around 5 GBs, so moving it to 6 seems to have solved the trick. I now have a perfectly usable 12+GB ipod and so far have filled it to only 200MBs remaining and no copying/hanging problems. Thanks and Good luck! |
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