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See http://www.macgeekery.com/node/6 for nice examples of partitioning that helped people with both new and old disks. | See http://www.macgeekery.com/node/6 for nice examples of partitioning that helped people with both new and old disks. | ||
===Take-apart guides=== | |||
Good guides are at iFixit.com, for example their page on the iPod 5th generation (Video): http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_5th_Generation_%28Video%29 | |||
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Revision as of 20:02, 26 August 2010
Diagnostics
Key combinations
See the graphic at http://www.command-tab.com/2006/03/30/hidden-ipod-commands/ for key combinations.
iPod 5th gen
- MENU+SELECT
- restart
- SELECT+REVERSE
- diagnostic mode
Disk repairs
Skipping bad blocks
See http://www.openobject.org/isop/?p=47 for how to re-partition an iPod's hard drive so that bad blocks are part of the partition-map partition instead of the firmware or data partitions.
See http://www.macgeekery.com/node/6 for nice examples of partitioning that helped people with both new and old disks.
Take-apart guides
Good guides are at iFixit.com, for example their page on the iPod 5th generation (Video): http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_5th_Generation_%28Video%29
