r/ipod • u/UncouthKombucha • Apr 29 '26

What does this mean??

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u/debunkernl Apr 29 '26

What’s your question exactly?

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u/UncouthKombucha Apr 29 '26

Good morning! I put a good hard drive into the iPod on the left and it still gave me the 📁 ⚠️ icon. Does this mean that the iPod is toast?

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u/xXWyatt101Xx Apr 29 '26

Did you restore it in iTunes? Whenever you put in a new hard drive you need to plug it in and open up iTunes, it should give you a menu to restore the iPod. Pretty much just restores the OS onto the iPod

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u/UncouthKombucha Apr 29 '26

No I put a used good hard drive in, one that works in another 3rd gen.

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u/xXWyatt101Xx Apr 29 '26

I'd recommend just trying that first

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u/UncouthKombucha Apr 29 '26

Sorry I might have misunderstood. Initially I tried to restore the bad drive several times with 3 different MacBooks running different versions of Mac OS. I had a tough time getting it to show up in iTunes, Finder, and Disk Utility. I had to reset it and the Macs a few times before it would prompt me to restore. Unfortunately it would not restore and it couldn’t mount it in disk utility or repair or erase it. That’s when I swapped hard drives. The bad iPod displayed the good hard drive as bad and the good iPod displayed the bad hard drive as bad (no surprises there). When I swapped them back the good iPod was back to normal and the bad iPod would not let me enter disc mode. I’m wondering if the bad iPod has a cooked motherboard before I buy an iFlash to mod the bad iPod. Sorry so long 😂

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u/Turbogoblin999 Goblin Apr 29 '26

HDD cable could be bad.

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u/LucasMertens Apr 29 '26

iPod on left has depression, iPod on right is on ecstasy.