The computer no longer reads the ipod as being connected which sometimes would reset it and get it to work.. Plugging it in, pressing a bunch of buttons also no longer works. I've gotten every sad face/battery/etc. screen so im not sure what to do. I need those songs. Any advice anyone? Its the 20gb older, white one, click wheel i guess that i got in 2004.

Slamming it on the tile floor worked for a few months but it doesnt work anymore. I just got a new ipod for christmas but i NEED the old songs, even if i decide to keep the new one. Is it possible to transfer the songs from one ipod to another? Took me hundreds of hours probably to download all these songs. Cant do it again and some of it i can not get again.

Will Apple ipod store do anything as far as fixing it/restoring it for free? If not, i was gonna try the ipod repair people on ebay for 30 bucks
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Will Apple ipod store do anything as far as fixing it/restoring it for free?

Doubtful...iPods don't like to be slammed, especially on tile floors. Your best chance is to try to get the music onto a computer from the old iPod and than put it onto the new Ipod. Try going into disc mode to get to the files.
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i just took the ipod apart. It looks like the metal connector fromt eh hard drive is taped on with some black tape to the metal part of the actual ipod. Anyway, it was secure but not anymore. i dont know how that could possibly be the way they hook the hard drive up to it. I mean, its tape!!! im going to the ipod store anyway tomorrow so i'll see what they have to say.

as far as slamming it, i got angry one day and flung it because it wasnt working. it started to work and every time since then when it doesnt work, dropping it seemed to make it work. But not anymore.
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