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Can't restore my Hard drive.

My iPod was displaying the sad face icon so I replaced the hard drive (20gb). Everything went fine when the new drive was in no more sad face (folder icon instead) and the iPod was now recognized by Itunes and Windows. I went to the restore process and was told to plug it into an external power adapter and the iPod shows a picture of a wall outlet and plug on it.

I have a plug adapter that lets me plug a USB cable into it so I tried that, nothing.

I tried a car charger (I-go with iPod tip), nothing. Even went to radio shack and they tried an iPod wall charger ( not apple brand but an after market one) and still nothing.

Now the iPod is not recognized by itunes so I can't try a restore, it isn't recognized by windows so I can't reformat the drive, and it appears I can't complete the restore process.

can anyone help????

p.s. no luck getting it into disk mode either.

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yes i have the same prob. it has to be a older apple usb or fire wire charger! witch i have neather of. a new type or aftermarkit wont work.

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I have a similar problem: I replaced the (60Gb) hard disk with a brand new identical one, and when connected with the Firewire cable, it comes up as 'this disk isn't recognized, do you want to initialize?'.

Then in Disk Utility, when I attempt to initialize (erase/format) the disk, I get the following error:

"Disk Erase failed.

Disk Erase failed with the error:

POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Cannot allocate memory"

Anyone?

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is the disk connected right and is ist the right hdd for that model?

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Yes the disk was properly connected and the model was identical to what came out of the iPod.

In the end, it was a problem with Mac OSX (10.6.2). I rebooted my mac with BootCamp (Windows XP), and through Windows iTunes saw the iPod without any problems and restored it just fine.

After that I restored it again in the mac (I wanted it to be in Mac format) and it now works as good as new.

Thanks for the reply Markus.

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you're welcome

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