iPod The Sound of a Dead iPod

[Daveway]

My friend gave me her ipod because it wouldn't boot. I think I'm going to tell her its dead. Sounds like the HD is shot.

Here's a sound clip of the hard drive attempting to boot.

Dead iPod Noise

The one time the HD did boot for me, it wouldn't mount.

 

[iGary]

My friend gave me her ipod because it wouldn't boot. I think I'm going to tell her its dead. Sounds like the HD is shot.

Here's a sound clip of the hard drive attempting to boot.

Dead iPod Noise

The one time the HD did boot for me, it wouldn't mount.

.wav?!?!?!?

The shame.

 

[mrgreen4242]

Certainly sounds like a bad HDD. What gen/model is it? Might be worth replacing the HDD or parting out the rest of the unit.

 

[Daveway]

Its a 20gb HP 4G.

BTW Gary, I used .wav so you could here every clickity clack and the fact that its the only uncompressed file format in QT.

Anyone know of any suppliers of these drives at relatively good prices? She's in college so she can't spend much to get this thing running again.

 

[DaftUnion]

If it's less than a year old, get a replacement from Apple.

 

[Sedulous]

Not to be a jerk, but isn't AIFF the "Mac" equivalent of .WAV? I ask only out of genuine curiosity.

Its a 20gb HP 4G.

BTW Gary, I used .wav so you could here every clickity clack and the fact that its the only uncompressed file format in QT.

Anyone know of any suppliers of these drives at relatively good prices? She's in college so she can't spend much to get this thing running again.

 

[Layer34]

hi, if its under warranty then get it sent back, but if its not under warranty open the ipod up and replace the drive connector cable (no more than £5 on ebay) - i know that drive sounds dead but from experience that i had tonight i suggest you try it.

Today I got a faulty 20gb 4G ipod that sounded similar to that, i thought it was dead, but i tried the drive in another ipod and it worked fine, so i replaced the drive connector cable in the ipod and put the drive back - now it works great

Good luck

 

[Demon Hunter]

Well at least you made a sweet sound effect!

 

[the_freddinator]

Dead. Period.

 

[Orlando Furioso]

sounds like my pismo trying to read a DVD

 

[Daveway]

Well I went through the diagnostics mode and forced a disk mode.

I started to restore it with the latest ipod software but it freezes the ipod app. Nothing gives.

 

[BlizzardBomb]

My iPod made a similar noise. After about 1 hour of trying to fix it, it started giving me the dead iPod symbol and makes a croaking sound like as if the hard drive turned into a miniature frog.

 

[Mord]

format it in disk utility?

 

[Daveway]

format it in disk utility?

It starts but then the drive powers down in the middle of partitioning. I think I'll issue it the death warrant and get another drive off eBay.

 

[applemacdude]

sure the ipod utility recognizes it but it still vroken