What happens if i format my ipod classic

Asked 11 years, 6 months ago. Active 8 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 71k times. My iPod never finishes syncing and only syncs audio, not pictures or video. Any ideas as to how I can fix it? Any advice on what to try next much appreciated? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Sam Meldrum Sam Meldrum 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Thanks, but not much help in my current situation. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Maybe this will help: Make backup copy of your music, pictures, anything you were syncing.

Remove itunes using the add remove feature. Delete all your music files, pictures ect. Copy music and pictures ect back from the backup copy. Reinstall itunes, do updates. Then try and sync. Hope this helps! Improve this answer. RandyMorris RandyMorris 2 2 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Not really practical.

I really need a solution that addresses the issues with the iPod itself. Wow, there are other ipod using same data and sync configurations successfully, and you have done a factory restore?

Try using same cable as the other successfully synced ipods? So, I found the answer on wikihow Steps to format repeated here for posterity. Formatting an iPod classic First put your iPod into disk mode.

Same as step 3. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete or more, depending on your iPod capacity. View the answer I have this problem too Subscribed to new answers.

Is this a good question? Yes No. Voted Undo. Score 0. Chosen Solution. Was this answer helpful? Score 3. When I connect my Classic to my PC two things happen now. It's saying to save off whatever data you can that's important and not already backed up and then reformat the hard drive using Disk Utility. This message appears while iTunes is doing the Restore , or when you connect the iPod before starting the Restore? If it happened when you connected the iPod, that is just confirming that that iPod's hard drive has data corruption.

Doing the Restore should fix the data corruption by erasing the hard drive. It's equivalent to using Disk Utility to reformat erase a regular hard drive. However, if the cause of the data corruption is the iPod's hard drive becoming unreliable, doing a Restore will not fix it. If it had a problem a few weeks ago that required a Restore , and it needs another Restore now, that could be a hardware problem on the iPod.

Hopefully, after this Restore , the iPod will function reliably for the long term. Apr 11, AM. I thought the restore went well I'm getting the Error Message that says I "do not have privileges to make changes. Is there a step in the restore that provides "privileges" that I missed? Or does this indicate a hardware problem on my iPod? Thank you again for helping me with this.

I use my iPod a lot. Your assistance is much appreciated. Apr 11, PM. That could be the iPod's hard drive becoming unreliable. Does the iPod operate and play songs when disconnected? That error should not apply to iPods, and is not related to iTunes. It is a general system message.