It is a very old 80Gb Classic. It had been buggy for years, but after passing hours doing various stuff on the computer, I had always been able to fix it.
But the last time, I just really couldn't figure out what was wrong.
I have found this tutorial which seems like it would solve the problem, but it is looking complex/complicated.
http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=316047
The biggest issue here is that it is for MAC users, and I'm on Windows 7. Anyone knows how to adapt it easily?
(Sorry, it is in French.)
The problem with my iPod is that it freezes iTunes when I plug it in, and once iTunes unfreezes I cannot find it to change the sync'ing stuff. (iTunes simply DOESN'T detect it at all...)
The Browser (Window + E) shows it, however. Right-clicking on it freezes the window for about 2 or 3 minutes and then it pops up the prompt. Clicking "Format" or whatever just doesn't do anything: it's never able to start or finish the process.
Some of the problems back years ago when it had started to get buggy, were:
- Skipping songs (the number of particular songs skipped increased over time)
- Showing a lot of extra "Other" space usage (something like 17 extra Gb that popped out of nowhere)
- One of my videos which used to play with sounds wouldn't anymore (but playing it directly from iTunes would still have sounds)
- The battery indicator would be quite unreliable (showing "full" could very well mean "a few minutes left" some times, and "hours left" some others)
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Apr 22 2014, 11:33 pm by payne.
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