Ipod Recovery

[KohKarrang]

I've got an old 1st or 2nd generation ipod 40gb which hasn't worked for a while, it's got all of my photos and videos and loads of music on it, I haven't been able to access any of it for ages but I've been ok about it, thinking that one day when I can be bothered then I'll get the data recovered, it's done strange things since it stopped working - it still shows all of the data is on there, when I turn it on and try to play one of the music files it just skips through all 2000+ songs one by one without playing any of them

I was wondering what the chances are of getting it fixed and recovering my data, if this is not possible then I would just like to use it as a hard drive as I'm using an Asus eeepc at the moment and it's got limited space remaining, any ideas?...

[dave_boo]

FWIW, there are few eee pc's that have the ZIF connector. And I'm not sure that the one they have will match up with your ipod's hdd.

[KohKarrang]

Thanks for your reply dave_boo

I seem to have fixed the problem by plugging the iPod inot my neighbours ibook which kickstarted the iPod, I then plugged it into both of my pc's and it worked fine

I'm over the moon!

[KohKarrang]

Still having problems, my technological run has hit a brick wall!

Each time I try to transfer pics and music from my old iPod I get half way through completing my task and something fails, is it possible my iPod has worn out?? It is over 4 years old....