Comments for How to Replace the Hard Drive in Your iPod at http://www.hometheaterhifi.com , comment 1 to 23 out of 20 comments http://www.hometheaterhifi.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:16:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-4947 Have you done this: Go to the summary tab, choose Restore and let iTunes do it stuff. Do not disconnect the Ipod until the process is complete. Now your iPod will be ready for use. If so, the I would do a hard reset: Press and hold the Play/Pause and Menu buttons simultaneously until the Apple/iPod logo appears, about 6 to 8 seconds. You may need to repeat this step. If you are still unable to reset your iPod, use only one finger from one hand to press the Center (Select) button, and one finger from the other hand to press the Menu button. Now try re-connecting to iTunes. - jared rachwalski Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:17:12 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-4946 Please help, i replaced my hard drive in my ipod classic and now im getting this error code. An iPod has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the ipod, then try again. An unknown error occurred (1621). - Bernard Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:46:56 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-4643 Disconect the iPod, reboot the computer. With the iPod disconected from the computer turn the iPod on. Do you see the Sad face :(? Now reconect to iTunes and try the repair/restore function. If it stil doesn't work ther may be other issues than just the Hard Drive. - Jared Rachwalski Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:16:57 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-4640 I bought a replacement 80gb drive. Installed it, connected to itunes which offered a window to restore. clicked ok and nothing happens. I hear the computer recognize when i plug in but it does not show up in my computer and cant get itunes to start the restore process after the window appears. any suggestions? - brandon Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:59:33 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-4230 I need your help, I have ipod photo (4th Gen) of 60 GB. I want to know if i can upgrade the hard drive to 120 GB and above. - ayo Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:12:34 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-3849 would this drive work in an iPod classic G5 http://gadgetynews.com/double-your-ipod-classic-storage-tiny-toshiba-hdd/ cause that would double my size from 160 to 320 GB - Neechan Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:35:18 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-3760 thanks for the manual.The replacement of my hd worked like a charm. The only thing that was a bit tricky was to find out, that my replacement hd had the cable connection upside down. So i had to build in the hd the other way around. - fred Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:38:38 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-3727 go to ebay. they sell a 240gb hd for $200!!!! - Jon Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:39:14 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2996 Even the replacement drives are at least $150 and they are limited to 160 GB. No one seems to make a larger drive than that. I would just suggest getting another iPod and put your additional music there. - JEJ Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:42:53 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2993 ..with the classic series. My search shows me that the 160gb drive is this one: MK1626GCB Which is a 1.8" wide x 8mm tall drive. I am unable to locate any drives that size larger than 160gb. - Jared Rachwalski Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:17:17 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2992 I have an iPod 160GB and I have almost run out of space (less than 10gb left). I would prefer not to delete but get a bigger drive. Do you have any suggestions for a bigger hard drive that might work with my iPod classic? - Bayoor Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:26:53 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2843 Have you connected the drive to your computer and ran iTunes yet? - Jared Rachwalski Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:51:46 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2840 i took the hard drive out of working ipod that had a 80 gig and want to put it in a ipod with 60 and it wont restore when i put it in the 60 gig what eles do i need to do to get it to work - David Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:03:27 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2556 Its the Hard drive. The same thing happened to me. - Robin Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:19:03 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2376 my ipod won't restart or anything. It keeps going to the apple screen and then it makes this noise in it. After that it shuts off and goes back to the apple screen. I can't fugure out how to get it to work! - Austin yang Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:59:51 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2230 Jared/Eugene, The iPod Touch, like the iPhone and the Nano, are entirely flash based, so there is no hard drive that can fail on them. The flash could start to fail, but in that case capacity would start to slowly diminish over time instead of all failing at once. - Chris Heinonen Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2228 Sorry, no idea on how to replace the hard drive in the touch as I do not have one to work on. As for the MK1011GAH - I have not looked around for this drive in a long time, so I have no idea where is the cheapest. I would check the usuall suspects (google, ebay, etc). Good luck. - Jared Rachwalski Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:49:23 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-2220 i was looking at the mk1011gah toshiba hard drive for my 80 gb ipod classic. where is the cheapest place to get that? - alexis Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:21:38 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-1863 is it the same for the ipod touch - eugene Mon, 18 May 2009 22:00:14 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/technical-articles/274-a-secrets-technical-article.html#comment-1540 Thanks to this article I was able to replace the HD in my 4th Gen IPod. I just used the same Toshiba 20G which I got off Amazon for $28 plus shipping. The hardest part was getting the case open. I just used a very small screwdriver since the case is all scratched up anyway. After I got the HD to format I kept getting error messages which I assume is because the Ipod is so old, but after reformatting it a couple of times I got it to work. Hopefully, it will continue to function, but for $28 and some time, it was well worth the effort. - Michael Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:51:16 +0100