Hello I have a 3 year old ipod that I got too close to a magnet. I believe the hard drive might be really screwed up––I get that frowny face guy. Is there an inexpensive way to fix this?
had it too close to a magnet and tried to restore it to factory settings... once i tried that it gave me an error message during the restorehad it too close to a magnet and tried to restore it to factory settings... once i tried that it gave me an error message during the restore
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I understood your problem...my friend but some times such a type of problems are occurs due to High magnetic field. High magnetic field cause such a damage which lost all data from Hard disc.
Just format your Hard disc and while installing OS you can create the desired size Partition.
I hope you understood what is the actual problem!!!!
Thank you for giving me oportunity to solve your problem ..
Speaking from personal experience, a large magnet won't do anything. If you want to _physically_ destroy the drive, hitting it with a hammer won't do it, either; you need to physically damage the drive platters inside.
My suggestion- drill through the case a couple of times. Most everything is made of aluminum, so it's fairly easy to get through with a standard cordless drill and, say, a 1/4" bit.
Otherwise, you could get the screwdrivers you need (usually a T-5 or-6, maybe a small hex head, sometimes a small Phillips. Take a close look at the screws holding the case together.) and take the thing apart. Interesting, educational, and the drive platters are pretty! I use them in my artwork. Once they're out of the case they're pretty useless informationally.
Actually the hard drive may not be "screwed" at all you should go to the following web address and view the free video on resolving your issue. Please let me know how it turns out. :)
Indeed magnets will kill a hard drive, such as the one in your iphone used to hold your music, as it uses magnetic impulses to make
the Binary 1/0 on the disk platter. Passing a magnet over a hard drive will disrupt this data,
and make the disk unreadable.
While many hard drives in computers/laptops have magnetic shields to prevent this from happening... the itouch does not.
The magnets shouldnt be strong enough. I have had my belkin case for years and the magnets havent damaged my ipods so it should not be a problem. Ta Ben
Hello, I assume that this is a FireWire external drive. Do you have any other FireWire devices (another drive, older iPod, etc) that you can test the port with? If other devices work, then the port on the drive has malfunctioned, or the drive needs repair (try Disk Warrior or First Aid in Disw Utility within OS X Applications...Utilities). If those other devices don't work either, then the port on the computer may be the problem (meaning logic board). You can also try creating another user in OS X, and testing the ports and the drive under that user. If all is well as another user, then you may have a software issue in your own user account.
had it too close to a magnet and tried to restore it to factory settings... once i tried that it gave me an error message during the restore
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