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One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
Authored by: bryanus on Jun 17, '06 07:13:00PM

I have a coupl questions about this method of discovering bad blocks on an iPod hd.

1) Why does the file have to be so small? I started with a 4KB file like you said, but it's taking _forever_ to find the first bad block (which I suspect is about 4GBs in).

So I switched to a .zip file of about 5MBs and have been duplicating that file. Initially one--by-one, but now I am duping it in about 10 file increments.

2) Say I get stuck during a copy. I then disconnect and reset the iPod and try again. How will I be able to get around this bad block if I can't copy to it in the first place?



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One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
Authored by: bryanus on Jun 17, '06 07:29:27PM

OK, so I hit a bad block with my larger .zip file. I got hung, disconnected, ran disk utility, and then proceeded to dupe the smaller 4kb file. I am strating to see more instances of the dialog box appear during the copying. Now what? Keep going?



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