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One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
Authored by: bryanus on Jun 17, '06 07:01:58PM

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.



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Fixed by paritioning iPod hard drive!
Authored by: bryanus on Jun 18, '06 12:25:44PM
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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