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Step 3
on Ubuntu
Connect the iPod (cancel any autorun dialog)
Go to gparted
in gparted click on the/dev/*** (** GB) button which is the disk being displayed at the moment,
Click on it and from the drop down select the drive which is the iPod.
You'll see that unallocated 39MB and the FAT32 formatted rest in the table(the image attached is not the actual thing)
Click Device in the menu bar and select unmount
Now click on the FAT32 formatted part of the disk and click on the Resize/Move button
yow will see the resize window with a bar with 2 handles on the sides
Now resize the partition (just drag the handle) so that the region we think is the bad sectors are out of the active region, in my case I pulled the left handle till i skipped the 1GB mark
The second & third time I did it, I typed in 12288 in the New size text box (since 12288 MB = 12 GB) pulled the active segment all the way to the right so the free space following is zero
Then Click Resize
The status bars will start and after few minutes you'll see that the autorun dialog that appear when you plug in you iPod will appear you can either ignore or cancel it
And the Process will finish (sometimes it ends with an error but its ok)
Close gparted
Unmount the iPod
And Bingo!!! You've got yourself a 12GB (in my case) iPod that is free of bad sectors.
on Ubuntu
Connect the iPod (cancel any autorun dialog)
Go to gparted
in gparted click on the/dev/*** (** GB) button which is the disk being displayed at the moment,
Click on it and from the drop down select the drive which is the iPod.
You'll see that unallocated 39MB and the FAT32 formatted rest in the table(the image attached is not the actual thing)
Click Device in the menu bar and select unmount
Now click on the FAT32 formatted part of the disk and click on the Resize/Move button
yow will see the resize window with a bar with 2 handles on the sides
Now resize the partition (just drag the handle) so that the region we think is the bad sectors are out of the active region, in my case I pulled the left handle till i skipped the 1GB mark
The second & third time I did it, I typed in 12288 in the New size text box (since 12288 MB = 12 GB) pulled the active segment all the way to the right so the free space following is zero
Then Click Resize
The status bars will start and after few minutes you'll see that the autorun dialog that appear when you plug in you iPod will appear you can either ignore or cancel it
And the Process will finish (sometimes it ends with an error but its ok)
Close gparted
Unmount the iPod
And Bingo!!! You've got yourself a 12GB (in my case) iPod that is free of bad sectors.
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