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Basically guys, I have an ipod video 5.5g 30gb - and all was fine up until a few weeks ago when it locked u and I got the sad mac logo. So I ordered a new 120gb hard drive to put in it as the old 30gb just wasn’t big enough any more. I’ve connected it all back together and I thought it was all good. I connected the ipod to my mac and it told me that had to initialise the drive. So I went into disk utility and tried to format it as mac journaled only to come across the error: “Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Resource busy” bit of a bugger - so i started to dig around and came across an apple post by hobbsit_atx (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa…) - and i tried the terminal command only to get the error code -16 the operation couldn’t be completed. So now i’ve tried the termainal commands with the same result (error-16) and itunes just tells me that the ipod is corrupt and I need to restore - which i try only for itunes to give me the “1416” error - which from what I can see - there isn’t a fix. I’m getting nearly to breaking point now, and this ipod is about to be launched out of the window. Can anyone please help me? Or have I managed to screw this thing up so badly I’ve now got a small door stop? Help?!!!
Hi, meeek totaly wrong way. To get it to work, the iPod needs to be restored by iTunes Set the iPod to disk mode, connect to a computer runnig iTunes follow the instructions to restore the iPod, done. http://www.command-tab.com/2006/03/30/hi…
You have an old iPod Video 5.0 motherboard. This motherboard will only accept the 30 and 60GB harddisks.
Hi there and may be I am totally wrong here but is the motherboard for the 30GB not different than one for the 80-120GB I thought the 30GB boards had 32MB of RAM while the 80GB board had 64MB of RAM. May be that is why you get that -16 error. But of course I am no expert so excuse my ignorance :)
