right, i dont usually have anything useful or constructive to say, so thought i'd mark this thread so that it stood out...
i had problems with my old 20g ipod, with the harddrive aparently, and was told by apple that i'd have to get a new one, or make up £100 to buy a new hard-drive... either way i was too poor and couldnt afford it.
so you'd think that that was the end of the story? no... for some reason i was searching through my cupboard and found the ancient thing... thought i'd try to get it to work, and suddenly remembered what brimicombe had told us in electronics about the older computers... sometimes, after extended periods of disuse, the hard drive begins to stick. the way to sort this out is to drop the pc about 3 inches onto a table... so i thought i'd do this to the ipod and replicated the dropping with a few smacks on the desk... one restore and an hour of loading time later and i have a working ipod again
so the moral of the story is thus- if you have a broken electrical item, whack it on the desk and with a bit of luck, it'll work as good as new.
i had problems with my old 20g ipod, with the harddrive aparently, and was told by apple that i'd have to get a new one, or make up £100 to buy a new hard-drive... either way i was too poor and couldnt afford it.
so you'd think that that was the end of the story? no... for some reason i was searching through my cupboard and found the ancient thing... thought i'd try to get it to work, and suddenly remembered what brimicombe had told us in electronics about the older computers... sometimes, after extended periods of disuse, the hard drive begins to stick. the way to sort this out is to drop the pc about 3 inches onto a table... so i thought i'd do this to the ipod and replicated the dropping with a few smacks on the desk... one restore and an hour of loading time later and i have a working ipod again
so the moral of the story is thus- if you have a broken electrical item, whack it on the desk and with a bit of luck, it'll work as good as new.
