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Cant format or restore my ipod classic 120 GB

Aerinqq

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Jan 17, 2013
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Hi everyone,
I cant format or restore my 120 GB ipod claassic. My ipod started doing weird things some time ago, like it was suddenly unable to play some songs, or there were 1-2 minutes between another song would load. Today i did the restoration of bad sectors through windows, it was running like 8 hours. After that not only my ipod is not recognized by Itunes (its been like that for months), but now not even my windows recognizes it. It shows as device E: and it asks me to format it before I can use it, but format doesnt work sadly (it only says windows is unable to format the device).
I cant open the ipod and see the files, it shows as the disk has 0 Byte capacity.
I tried to restart the ipod and also tried the disk mode, but nothing works. All the music that is (was) on the ipod is not showing either (ipod just says no music).
Is there anything I could do? Or should I just consider it as its time has passed? (its very old)

thanks in advance
 

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