Technical Articles How to Replace the Hard Drive in Your iPod
| How to Replace the Hard Drive in Your iPod |
| Written by Jared Rachwalski | ||||
| Sunday, 10 February 2008 16:00 | ||||
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Step 2: Remove the existing hard drive. There is a thin ribbon cable connecting the hard drive to the circuit board. This cable is inserted into the ZIF connector on the hard drive and clamped down with a thin black plastic clamp. Lift up this clamp, and the cable should release easily. Now if your new hard drive does not have the foam or rubber bumpers, remove them from the old drive and attach them to the new drive.   Step 3: Insert the new hard drive. First, you need to pop up the plastic clamp on the new hard drive. Then push the ribbon cable into the ZIF connector on the new hard drive; lightly push the clamp back down. Now the cable should be secure. Place the drive back onto the circuit board, and put the back plate back on top. To snap the back plate back onto the front plate, start at the bottom, and then both sides at the same time. The headphone jack area should be the last part to be connected.   Step 4: Initialize the new hard drive. Press any button on your iPod, and you should see an error telling you the drive is not formatted, or you will see a sad face icon (unless the hard drive was already initialized). Now connect the iPod to your computer and run iTunes. You will see an error telling you to restore the iPod if the hard drive has never been initialized. 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. Comments (9)
This could come in handy someday :-)
written by Jan , February 24, 2008 Is it possible to get even bigger hard drives, e.g. 160 Gb?? A hundred is just 20 bigger than the excisting...
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written by JRach , February 27, 2008 Soon you should be able to get 160 . As long as it has the ZIF connector and fits inside the case it should work.
Accidently
written by SMC1023 , July 27, 2008 I accidentally pulled the drive connector completely out of the ipod and I'm not too sure how to go about putting it back in.
Success!
written by Michael , February 15, 2009 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.
80 gb ipod classic.
written by alexis , September 29, 2009 i was looking at the mk1011gah toshiba hard drive for my 80 gb ipod classic. where is the cheapest place to get that?
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written by Jared Rachwalski , October 01, 2009 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.
iPod Touch
written by Chris Heinonen , October 01, 2009 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. Write comment
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