iPod Problem With Recovery Mode - Endless Loop

[Lone Ninja]

Well, recently, my 30GB 5th Generation iPod went into the endless loop of Recovery Mode. Needless to say, after hours of trying to figure it out, I am mad, however, I slept, and I am better now.

Anyways, I did some research last night, and found my way to this site, where someone posted the following post:

Ok, so I finally go my iPod working after this constant restore thing. I have a first generation iPod Nano but I assume it will work for all iPods. This is what I did:

First I reset the iPod and went into Diagnostics Mode. If you don't know how to do this then you must click the link posted above to figure out the commands. I looked at my iPod status and it was fine but when i tried to view the HD_stats it would freeze and wouldn't display anything. I assumed my HD was corrupted or something.

The next thing you need to do is put your iPod into Disc Mode. Again, if you don't know how to do this read above and figure out the command for your iPod. After you do this you should be able to access your iPod as a "Removable Disc" on your computer through My Computer (if your using a PC). You need to REFORMAT your iPod HD. You can do this by right clicking on a PC and selecting "Format Drive" or some option like that. Mine actually prompted me to format the drive after I double clicked on it.

After you reformat the iPod HD go back into Diagnostics mode and check the HD_status again. If this was the problem and it is fixed now you should see a screen with your HD stats. Congrats if you get this far because there is only one more step and it should work.

Now all you need to do is restore your iPod one last time from iTunes. It will look like it did before when it wasn't working but when you get the message "Your iPod has been restored and will reappear in iTunes when it is done," it will actually work. You should see the Apple Logo on the screen and a progress bar at the bottom that wasn't there before. If you see this then the restore was a success!!! Hope this helps everyone!!!

I only have one problem with this. No matter where I look, I cannot find HD_status. Here, I will actually type up every command I have.

SRV Diag Boot

Menu: Manual Test
>NTF
>>AutoTest
>>>Graphic Self Test
>>>SDRAMQuickTest
>>>Checksum
>>>RTC
>>>USBTest
>>>KeyTest
>>>WheelTest
>>>HeadphoneDetect
>>>Accessory Test
>>>ChargeADC
>>>Backlight
>>>Color
>Memory
>>SDRAM
>>>SDRAMFullTest
>>Flash
>IO
>>Comms
>>>USBTest
>>Wheel
>>>KeyTest
>>>WheelTest
>>Display
>>>Backlight
>>>Color
>>>TVOUT
>>HeadphoneDetect
>>HardDrive
>>>HDSpecs ---- Is this it?
>>>HDSMARTData
>Power
>>A2DTests
>>>ID
>>>A2D
>>>BatterryA2D
>>>VCC
>>>ACC
>>>ChargeADC
>>>USBDP
>>>USBDN
>>Sleep
>>>SleepShort
>>>SleepForever
>Accessories Test
>SysCfg
>Resest
Previous: Auto Test


Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. All I want is to be able to use my iPod again