Replacing your iPod hard drive

Do you feel lucky? Got an iPod with a dead, undersized or otherwise less-than-peachy hard drive? Well, pilgrim, surf your way over to Command-Tab for a detailed, delightful rundown on iPod hard drive replacement. They've got the scoop on every drive that will fit in full-size current and past model players, plus detailed replacement instructions and tool info (careful with that razor blade, Sparky!) for the do-it-yourselfer behind those white earbuds. Now, my inventory of dead iPods includes one Mini that could use new storage; for that I might have to go with this series of tips on upgrading to 4, 8 or 16 GB of Flash RAM.

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Pahtlor

I've got a 4GB micro drive I salvaged from a dead mini. Just wondering if it's possible to use it in my digital camera.. I've put it in and formatted it on the camera several times, but the camera can't use it afterwards. Also tried different formats using my mac, no luck. Is there a special trick to get it to work?

March 14 2007 at 7:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

ifixit.com sells all sorts of ipod replacement parts. i order all the parts i use in repair from them. they also sell replacement parts for laptops and desktops.

March 13 2007 at 8:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wicker_man

I swapped the dead 40GB drive in my 3rd gen iPod with a 20GB one I got from eBay, it was pretty simple using a couple of 1mm guitar picks I had.

I also swapped the battery while I had it open, there were 2 plastic tools with the battery but they were useless and broke while attempting to open it.

I recently swapped the hard drive for a 40GB one (the 20GB was too small for my music collection and the 40GB was going cheap).

March 13 2007 at 2:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jon Stieglitz

ayone know a good place to find cheap harddrives?

March 13 2007 at 1:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply