I have a 30gb 5th gen ipod video that is making a clicking sound. I turn it on and I get the sad ipod face and a clicking whirring sound comes out of what I can only assume is the HD. I have tried to put it into disk mode and cannot get it to respond to that, as it wont hold a charge long enough to let me put it in DM. Any thoughts? should I just buy a new one?
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Crisb
Hi,
the clicking sound coming from the hard disk plus the sad ipod icon most likely means, that the hard drive is damaged. BUT the battry not holding the charge makes me nervous, because its not typical for a damaged hard disk.
So i would buy a new battery, be sure to get a battery 5mm thick for a 30GB ipod, because the batterys for the 60 and 80GB modells are thicker (9mm) and the thicker battery doesn't fit into the 30GB case. A battery costs around 10 bucks, if your ipod works again after that, good for you. If you find out that you also need a new hard disk, it doesn't matters as i would change the battery as well when changing the hard disk.
Changing the battery and/or changing the hard drive is described in the repair section of this page.