Posts Tagged ‘ipod data recovery’

Recovery from various iPod data loss situations!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

ipod data recoveryThere are many embracing situation you got while using iPod like frozen iPod, iPod Sad Face, iPod Exclamation, iPod AutoSync, iPod Restore and iPod Reset etc. These are some very common problem among iPod users. In these situations you may lose you iPod music files so you must need recovery software. When you go to restore your iPod to original factory setting then you also need recovery because if you don’t have backup files then you can lose all your iPod files.

Some of the steps will help you to recover a frozen iPod:

Resetting an iPod is process which is similar to re-booting a computer that unfreezes your iPod to normal without recovery software. To reset your iPod click on “Menu” and “Select” the center button and hold down for 6 seconds, now you will see the Apple logo appear and then iPod menu display. if your iPod is working safely then you can continue working. If Reset did not work or reset cause loss of music files then you need recovery to iPod/ iPod touch.

Some of the steps will help you to recover iPod data from iPod sad face icon

If your iPod is displaying sad face icon due to hardware issue. You can get rid of this issue manually by placing your Pod in Disk Mode by pressing switch on and off. Press Menu and Select button for at least 6 seconds, now you will see Apple logo, now left release the Menu and Select button then soon press Select and Play/pause button until you got Disk Mode screen. If you are in Disk Mode then your iPod will display a large tick at the top of screen. If you what to force iPod into Disk Mode then you must use iPod Recovery Software. iPod Data Recovery Software will help you to recover data if any hardware issue occur with iPod.

Attempting to copy to the disk “Customer’s iPod” failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Ipod is the portable media player that is mainly used for the entertainment purpose. The videos, songs on your ipod can’t be shared from one ipod to another. This is because ipod is the read only device that requires to be synchronized to the system. ITunes is the interface between your ipod and computer. So whenever you remove, create playlists or add songs you have to synchronize your ipod to the system and then perform actions on the iTunes. This means if anything went wrong with the synchronization and you became unable to access your ipod then you have to use the ipod data recoveryipod data recovery tool to recover ipod data.

Sometimes when you sync with ipod to the Mac then you may get this error message- “Attempting to copy to the disk “Customer’s iPod” failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)”

This may be because of the use of the out dated version of the iTunes with your ipod. To solve this situation you can restore your ipod.
•    Open the iTunes and connect the ipod to the system
•    Choose the ipod in a source panel
•    Then click restore button. Then a message will come to enter the name and the password of the administrator.
•    Then you will be asked for the ipod specific information
•    Then you will see the Apple logo with the progress bar. Then the restore process is now completed.
•    Then iTunes window will prompt for the ipod name, the syncing preferences and many more.

But restoring will delete all your ipod data. Use backup to restore them otherwise use ipod recovery software to recover the lost data.