Is my iPod dead?

June 26, 2004 3:50 AM

iPod emergency: I'm supposed to provide music for a wedding in two hours, but it appears that my iPod decided to croak. I reset the bastard by holding menu and play, and now I got a slowly blinking Apple icon, suspicious hard drive clicks, and nothing more. It won't connect to windows and the updater doesn't see it. Am I fcuked?

The 'pod was dropped about a week ago, but it was working fine...until I tried to connect it to do some last-minute playlist tweaking. Worst comes to worst, I can play music from the laptop, but hey, this sucks.

posted by muckster to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

(This is secondhand, I don't have an ipod myself.) Reset and then hold down previous and next together to force disk mode, then you should be able to connect from windows and use the updater.
posted by Nothing at 4:04 AM on June 26, 2004

Response by poster: Wohoo, I think I got it. Next and Previous together put it in Disk Mode, now the laptop sees it, and I restored the software. Cheers for me and my sister's wedding, and sorry for freaking out on AskMefi.

On preview--thanks Nothing.
posted by muckster at 4:06 AM on June 26, 2004

AskMetafilter : we fix fast, good, 'n cheap.
posted by troutfishing at 6:16 AM on June 26, 2004

AskMetafilter : We secretly laugh as we all realize hard disk clicking sounds means the inevitable....
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:37 PM on June 26, 2004