Scandisk on an iPod?

Wryel · 28 Mar 2006 at 16:35

Sounds like the disc is either going or it has a few bad sectors, can I use scandisk on my iPod without ruining it? I haven't tried it yet as its a bit hit and miss as to whether or not it will be recognised in windows at all.

rich_g85 · 29 Mar 2006 at 19:34

As long as you have a backup of all your music, what have you got to lose? It's not likely to permanently trash the disk.

Westyfield2 · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:05

Defrag?

Similary Windows offers me a defrag of my 60gb video - will it do any harm?

rich_g85 · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:08

Westyfield2 said:
Similary Windows offers me a defrag of my 60gb video - will it do any harm?

No - defrag only reorganises your data for optimum efficiency. It can't do any harm

Westyfield2 · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:13

Yey

Yhanks
Yey - and I've only used 2gb

jhmaeng · 30 Mar 2006 at 00:15

Apparently, you shouldn't defrag flash disks. But it should be fine to scandisk and defrag HDD-based MP3 players.