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Scott, you are correct it no longer powered up after several tries, and yes I took it apart in order to retrieve the HDD and I bought a ZIF adapter so that I could plug it to a pc through a USB.

Hey Dennis I did not sync music, I always transferred manually through iTunes so I did not have a back up, my current laptop is running low on storage so no way I could back it up so that's pretty much why I don't have the tunes in my laptop. By the way they just replied back to me and I'm about to try what they suggested: Actually, to recover HFS+ data, you need a Lazesoft Recovery Suite Professional Edition. Here is the download link of new version of Lazesoft Recovery Suite Professional Edition. http://www.lazesoft..../lsrspsetup.exe You do not need to buy a license. We just hope you can recommend our product to your friends and help us to promote our free product. After downloading the setup file of Lazesoft Recovery Suite Professional Edition, please set it up. Then run it and use <Data Recovery> -> <Partition Recovery> module. In the <Partition Recovery> module, please select the whole IPod HDD. Then begin to search data on it. If you have any question, just contact me. Thank you. Edit: Tried it, didn't work:( I think I'm gonna call it quits now. Edit: They suggested something else with gave me over 6000 mp3 files but they were less than 500kbs each, and were about 2gb in total so I guess I am screwed at this point.

I will try the second option and report back to you, thanks. By the way I had my iPod playing and a friend of mine accidentally dropped it into a bucket full of water, I managed to retrieve it within seconds but still the damage was done because it froze and I wasn't able to turn it off by just pressing the Play/Pause button because it just wouldn't turn off as it had already frozen from the water damage so then I got a red X inside a circle sign and it shut itself off, I tried drying by leaving it inside rice for about 7 days and it wouldn't work, I was most concerned about the music so I decided to tear it apart and try to recover my music which is what I'm trying to do now.

Thanks you guys, and yes Dennis I did as you can see in the pic attachment on my previous post, I ticked them all and save all of them although they weren't too many files. One thing I forgot to mention is when I checked those recovered files they were definitely recovered from the ipod because it had some of the game files that come preinstalled on it and which I never used I mean I never played those ipod games but I kept them because I wasn't able to delete them, however that was all that I found ipod related no songs. Edit: I removed the quotings I made for easier browsing Alan.

Well I tried with the free Home Suite vesion and the results where pretty much the same, I ticked all of the boxes and then tried saving the files to the C:/ drive and there were only a few useless files I think, unless those Lost Files and Recycle Bin folders are any use, because they sure don't have any songs in there. Should I give up now?

I gave a try to what Alan suggested and still to no avail. This is what I got instead of over 70gb worth of music. What should I try now?

Well I tried scanning both on PhotoRec and both came with same result 0 files recovered, now I'm yet to try that Lazesoft software which I'm guessing if it doesn't work I'm pretty much screwed, huh? Edit: Just tried Lazesoft and it didn't work either, it was pretty much the same result as using Recuva or EaseUs software which was recognizing the drive as a 9.79GB drive and would only find some weird folders like RecycleBin and LostFiles I think. When working with Lazesoft I noticed a different option which is recover partition then attempt to recover lost files, would this help or make it worst? I don't know what else to do anymore.

Thanks! I was able to use PhotoRec through the Tenth Window no problem but after that comes selecting where to save and I know the saving is made on my main drive (C:/) and not the external one but I read that step takes some writing so I figured I would ask you if it's safe for me to save? By the way I'm not sure which of these two options I should go for, my guess would be the second HPFS - NTFS because you said the drive was HFS before and now it's NTFS so it makes sense but according to the guy on the youtube video the default one is the most proper choice since the program itself selects it on default and the highlighted one is the one shown as default which would be the first Sys=3F, so which one should I go for? And one last thing, I saw this screen on the tutorials but I was never prompted to choose the formats because this screen never appeared, but maybe I shouldn't mind this.

Thanks! I will give them both a try when I get back home later on tonight, by the way do you by any chance have a link to a more detailed help file? I found these two guides: http://www.cgsecurit...ec_Step_By_Step http://www.cgsecurit...sk_Step_By_Step But after reading them I find them rather difficult, like they're working on recovering different stuff I'm not sure, I just don't want to mess it up and end up being unable to recover my files.

Thanks for your input, although I already tried some of the software suggested in there which is ICare Recovery data to no success, I also gave EaseUs Data recovery wizard a go same result. I'll just wait hoping someone else might be able to further assist on this matter.

Hi there I'm new to this forum so hopefully this is the right place for it. I had a iPod Classic 80gb 6th gen break down on me and the thing I cared about the most was recovering the music so I bought an adapter to connect the HDD to my computer and therefore try and get back the music, most sites directed me towards Recuva and since I'm a loyal CCleaner user this idea seem most fortunate to me, however when I connected the HDD to my computer and launched Recuva it would ask me to format the drive in order for Recuva to recognize it, I did some searching first and found that it is possible to format and still recover the files as long as I don't try putting anything on the drive because that would overwrite it making me lose my files. So I formatted through Recuva when I was prompted to do so and chose NTFS format and I did not notice at first but it only formatted the HDD to a 9.29 GB (out of the 80gb which is it's capacity), I tried Recuva on two different computers and it won't find anything, I was hoping you could please assist me since according to what I read I haven't done anything that would make me lose the files.