I have Ipod classic 7th generation (late 2009) model... My power port broke and i'm trying to retrieve the files from it. I have taken the ipod apart and disconnected the hard drive and connected it to a 50pin/Zif to USB adapter... I have it plugged into my computer. I then click on the drive and it says that I have to format the drive before I can use it..... Is there any way around this?
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Ramone Bills not sure what you mean by a 50pin to USB adapter. I use a Zif to USB adapter all the time. Then I use a program like CopyTrans to transfer the files. The trick here is that your computer may not recognize the drive, specially if it was formatted on a Mac and now you are trying a PC or vice versa. Try a different computer and a different OS
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Is CopyTrans Free? And do you 'need' that program for this process? Or can you just copy and paste yourself?
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Ramone Bills you can't copy and paste because of the iPod file structure. You'll never know what the file was. All you can determine is that it is a MP3. It's kind of weird when you look at it. There are many iPod to computer software titles out there. I just like CopyTrans because I am used to it. Check for something like PodTrans which supposedly is free
Ok... I tried it on Windows Vista and on Windows 10... And it again tells me that I need to format the drive before I use it...... Is there a certain driver that needs to be installed first? Should I have put it in 'disk mode' before I took it apart? I didn't think it would matter...... I purchased it brand new, so it was never formatted before.....
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