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Song counter does not advance as song is supposedly playing.

I have reset and restored my iPod several times as well as moved the hold button on and off several times, but none of that corrects the problem of choosing a song to play, the iPod stating that it is playing, but it does not and the play counter is not advancing. I can hit fast forward and it will advance to a number but it sits there as well. I believed it had to be a hardware issue of some sort but do not know which piece of hardware is at fault. I have reinstalled 20-21Gb of data to the hard drive every time I reformatted it so I do not believe it is a hard drive issue. The battery definitely needs replacing but when it is full & plugged in I still cannot play a song so I doubt it is simply the lack of a fresh battery. Please help.

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I believe the hard drive could be going bad. I have a 30 GB ipod, the same gen as yours and the hard drive is working but there are some bad sectors at the beginning of the disk that cause the ipod to freeze or the play counter not advancing (some times I hear distorted sound through the headphones). I found the bad sectors doing a "surface test" using EaseUS partition manager, but I believe there is some free software available for that.

You also can boot your ipod in "diagnostic mode". See here: http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsu...

Go to IO>Hard Drive>HDSMARTData

Now you'll get these values:

Retracts

Reallocs

Pending sectors

Power on hours

Start/stops

Reallocs is the number of bad sectors that have been and reallocated to the spare area.

Pending sectors is the number of bad sectors pending from being reallocated to the spare area.

In my case bad sectors show always in the same area no matter how many times I format and restore the hard drive, so I created a 1 GB dummy file (the approximate size of the problematic area) and move it to the beginnig of the disk using MyDefrag. The problem has been solved for now but I know the hard drive can fail any time.

If your hard drive show these symptoms I think the better course of action would be to buy a new or fully working hard drive or maybe install a compact flash card.

And I'm sorry for my terrible English, it's not my first language.

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