When finished press MENU+SELECT for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again. For comparison here are mine taken when my 6th Generation Classic was about 2 years old: Retracts: 889 Reallocs: 12 Pending Sectors: 0 PowerOn Hours: 2202 Start/Stops: 894 Temp: Current 24c Temp: Min 10c Temp: Max 50c Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button | HardDrive > HDSMARTData to reveal your stats. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. It is possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Most third party tools will probably require the device to have a functioning library however the method given in Recover media from an iPod should work as long as the device still shows up in Windows Explorer or Finder. See the user tip Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device for some recovery tools. What follows are tips for restoring your iPod, but if it is the only location currently hosting some of your media then the first task is to try to extract it. Recover media from a manually managed iPod Here are a number of things to try if you are having problems updating your iPod classic, or if your computer freezes when it is connected.

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