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One method of skipping bad sectors on an iPod's drive
Authored by: PanicRoom on Jun 18, '06 01:59:27PM

I know this is just circumventing the original hint, but I thought it might be helpful to mention to some users:

I had constant problems with a 4G 40GB iPod. After following all the tips here and elsewhere or the net, and spending hours partitioning, re-partitioning (and re-partitioning again!), the damn thing still wouldn't work. There were several problems with the drive (occuring every 3GB or so) and this made the iPod effectively useless. After resigning myself to buying a new iPod, I spoke with a friend who is an Apple tech, and who told me:

DON'T FORGET Apple has a two year extended warranty program in place for iPod's with bad batteries. I didn't think this would apply to me (since my battery was fine), but he stressed that there only needs to be a claim that the battery is defective. I was three weeks off two years, so I paid the 69 Euros (yeah, there's always a catch), told him "my iPod battery is stuffed", and Apple replaced my defective iPod with a brand new model.



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