About two weeks ago I get a call from my wife saying the iPod had dropped out of her bag and the magic smoke came out. Normally this wouldn't matter to me but in this case in my infinite wisdom and rush forgot to backup my music. I wouldn't say I forgot to backup but the iPod was the only place I kept my music in addition to the PowerMac that is MIA at the moment. It was originally formatted for use on a Mac. Everything around me here is PC.
So I went on the hunt for a friend with a Mac and came to my good friend to Johanna. a budding movie director and wicked bartender. She let me use her ibook and we worked on the poor thing like ER surgeons. Unfortunately wanna has no broadband and her neighbors don't want to share. If there was a problem I had to stop, go home research it, get the proper software and come back the next day. The surgery took 3 days. Like Dr. Frankenstein I finally revived the patient but now the HDD makes the "clunk" of impending doom. Access to some of my files and music is no go now. Its a shame because some of my favorite music seems to be in the area of the "clunk". God must be punishing me.
I'm currently backing up 9GB of the 12 and low level formatting.
BTW. want to know how I got her spinning after a nasty accident. Beat the crap out of it. LOL some solutions never fail.
Re: The music in the clunk.
Hey what software did you use? Is it something that Diskwarrior could help you fix? Have you tried going through it using Terminal and some *nix hard disk tools?
Yes, I did use diskwarrior. And it actually came in handy because of a problem that I had created in Linux. I knew the tools for HFS+ support in Linux were better, but it ended up cooking the partition table. At that point I knew I needed a Mac to actually undo the damage. Diskwarrior took a few days to get my hands on. One version didn't work in 10.4, but I was able to recover the partition using it. But the clunk. Everytime I went to recover a piece of music that was in that sector it would drag the PC down with it. Unresponsiveness followed by random reboots.
But I low-leveled it to map out the bad sectors. And most of the music is now on the PC. I was really worried about the music I paid for on itunes. Unless you send a begging letter to Apple you really have no recourse.
But the iPod is much snappier. I think the last time I restored it was in June 2003.