iPod Corrupted After Ejecting from Windows Vista

Apple iPods are used as popular portable digital media players. Moreover, the iPod disks are also used as secondary storage media. Except iPod Touch, you can use all types of iPods in disk-mode. If you are using a Mac formatted iPod, the file system will be HFS+, whereas, if it is formatted on Windows, the file system will be FAT32. You might observe several incompatibility issues of Apple iPod and iTunes with Windows Vista. Such problems might force you to reformat the iPod and use iPod Data Recovery applications in the absence of valid data backup.

As an example, you perform these steps with your iPod:

Connect an Apple iPod to a Windows-Vista based system in USB mode

You use Safely Remove Hardware function to disconnect your iPod after getting a notification to disconnect it or you use Eject command in Windows Explorer to perform the same task.
After this, when you try to access iPod data, you find your iPod corrupted. You fail to access the stored data.

Cause

The above issue occurs due to incompatibility concerns of Apple iPod with Windows Vista. Due to these problems, when you use Windows Explorer or Safely Remove Hardware functions, iPod structure might become corrupted.

olution

Following are the measures that you can apply to troubleshoot the issue:

To prevent the iPod corruptions occur in future, you should install hotfix 936824. This update resolves all the incompatibility problems of Apple iPod with Windows Vista

iPod structure is damaged and so you need to recreate it so that it can store data. This can be performed by reformatting the iPod. But since the process deletes all the data, it is crucial that you use your recent data backup to restore.

There might be situations when you dont have valid data backup. In such scen arios, you should use commercial iPod Recovery software. Data recovery applications for iPod are particularly designed to scan a logically rashed iPod and restore the missing information. Such utilities encompass powerful scanning algorithms, self-explanatory interface, read-only design and efficient iPod Data Recovery features.

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is the most suitable tool to recover lost music files, documents, audio books, podcasts, graphics and videos from iPods. It is a read-only application with rich user interface. It supports iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle. This iPod Recovery utility provides advanced features like File Mask, File Filter and Find File etc.

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