If you rebuild your PC’s hard drive, ensure you don’t have your iPod connected at the same time.
Especially when said iPod contains all the files you backed up from your hard drive, ready to load onto the new one…
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Doh :pinch:
Why? What did you do?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!!
its like moving MACs at work…only to find your old MACs new ower has deleted your itunes…YOU DID WHAT!!!:w00t::w00t:
oh noooooooooooooooooooo! I can feel your pain… :pinch:
thank you for the advice
Shame you had to find out that iPod’s suck the hard way.
too true… would never buy an ipood myself
It wiped all hard drives, including the iPod that was connected at the time. I’d just saved all my files on the iPod in order to transfer to the new hard drive. So I’ve lost all photos, music and whatever else I wanted to save.
Ipods are fine. Never had any faults with mine. It would have happened to any external hard drive I’d left connected. I’ve downloaded a free data recovery program, but it’s taken 4 hours to run already and is only 50% done. I don’t even know if it’s found anything…
Anyone know of a better way of getting the files back ?
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I don’t know how reliable a free data recovery program would be to be honest, but I hope it works for ya. And I think that some of those free recovery programs will search for your files, show you the ones it has found but makes you pay for the ability to actually recover them… Let us know how it goes
What did you use to wipe your hard drive, because I’ve wiped mine before with an external hard drive and USB memory stick plugged in and it hasn’t touched them :ermm:
It was the boot CD that came with the machine. I found that most of the free software downloads don’t work, and those that look like they’re working want to charge you before you can save anything.