Dead laptop. Dead, old ipod. My friend wants to rescue his music from the ipod.

[Pan]

My friend has had the double whammy. The laptop is beyond salvation and his ipod is the old style wheel-operated type. He has approx 25 gb of music on his 40gb pod, some of it irreplaceable and is beside himself. (which is a neat trick..)

He reckons he can get the disk out of the pod but is as clueless as I in how to recover the content off it. We assume this means transferring it somehow to another mobile hard drive, then putting that into a replacement computer. He has tried Apple but they are 'undecided' if it's possible.
Is there a way? What does he do with his extracted ipod disk? He's a lovely bloke and I'd really like to help him, with assistance obv!

Any answers at all?

< the usual 'thanks in advance' issued>

[Pan]

any ideas?

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

Can he retrieve the stuff from the laptop hard drive? I'd have thought that would be easier than the Ipod?

[Pan]

no, the laptop is defunct. No going back. Yes, that would have been easy.

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

sugar.

And they didn't store any of the songs in the woo cloud at all?

[rufusnine]

my friend deleted stuff by accident and managed to retrieve it with a website called something like this www.recovermyfiles.com/

[Pan]

I am pretty sure my friend has never heard of woo cloud. as I hadn't either.

it's all on the pod.

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

If it was on the Ipod, did he buy the tunes from apple? Or was it his own stuff that he uploaded to the Ipod?

[Pan]

a v small %age is bought stuff that is saved by i-tunes. all of the rest is from cds, most of which he no longer has. It's a question of using the pod disk, in some way?

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

Can he go to an Apple store and ask the twelve year olds staff in there?

[Pan]

yes, as I'd said he'd tried Apple and they were not much use.

it's on the pod and he needs to know how to use the disk there to transfer the music to a new disk

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

this??

or this??

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

I take it it doesn't show up if he plugs it into a different computer with the usb lead?

[Pan]

Well, yes he can get the disk out of the pod. The question is..once he has done that, how can he get the content onto another disk so he can then transfer it to a different laptop? Both pod and current laptop are dead.

[Pan]

No, he's done that.

It;s pinning for the fjords, RIP, gone, kaput, it is an ex pod.

[lucidlady]

You need to find the hidden files in the iPod, so that you can effectively use it as a disk. I did this a few years ago - google should be able to help.

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

this?

[Pan]

I am fully appreciating the effort at solving this, really. But this isn't a pd with any battery or life in it. IT can't recover by plugging it in anywhere. It's v old and is now lifeless. It can't charge or transfer anything under it's own steam. The data/music is on the disk but it needs lifting out and putting somewhere where the content can be accessed and transferred.

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

Okay, so can you buy a 2nd hand one, open it up, and move the disk over?

Or is that not possible?

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

I mean buy a second hand one the same model, lift the hard drive (or whatever it is on an IPod the storage bit) out of the broken one and put it in the working one?

[Pan]

ooh! Can you do that? Just swop disks? Is that even legal??

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

well one of those links shows how to get to the gubbins inside, so .......

[Pan]

yes it does. He can get it out. Just what to do with it then.

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

here

or here

Maybe an independent phone fixer type shop could help?

[Freddiemisagreatshag]

get a similar model and get a phone fixer guy to swap the hard drive?

[Pan]

My eyes hurt *freddie"! after looking at those links! So many circuits!

I think you're right it needs taking to someone who knows what he/she is doing.