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1. WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD UPGRADE
2. WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD SOFTWARE
3. WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD PC
4. WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD WINDOWS

You can count on destroying the back in the process unless you’re remarkably lucky. DON’T try to carry on with the blade: you need a wide flat implement in there to lever the back away evenly. The technique required is to push a sharp blade between the side joint of the front and back covers: look carefully at our finished case to see how the metal casting of the front is shaped underneath the steel stamping of the back – this is the best place to push your blade. This is likely to be destructive, but only to the cover – even if you pull it off with some force, the ribbon connector that links it to the iPod motherboard will pull loose long before it causes any damage. Upgrading an iPod with an SSD: A step-by-step guide 1.

WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD SOFTWARE

There’s a software limit in iTunes that can stop you using storage above 128GB with some iPods – but clearly, there are ways around that too: Tarkan has videos of his 1TB fifth-generation iPod working just fine. In my case, I used a relatively humble 64GB mSATA SSD.

WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD WINDOWS

Of course you can get around that on a MacBook by running Windows in a virtual machine, but that may be more trouble than it’s worth.Īn SSD: Sounds daft, but don’t forget that Tarkan and his competitors are selling only the adapter hardware, not the actual solid-state drive that goes in it. To do this you have to either do a lot of very deep, very arcane research into the limits and disadvantages of FAT32 – or just take Tarkan’s advice and use the public domain extended format utility he recommends – which runs only on a PC.

WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD UPGRADE

This isn’t a problem for small drives – but the whole point of the exercise is to upgrade the storage. The reason not to – which won out in the end for us – is that it’s impossible to gauge the quality of third-party replacement iPod batteries.Ī PC: If you are a Mac-only person, then you’ll struggle to complete this job because one of the vital steps is to format your SSD as a FAT32 device. On the other hand, while the back is not clipped on, this will probably be your only chance to put in a new battery. Replacement battery: This is an optional item I found that our original battery was in good shape, especially given the much lower current draw inherent to the SSD. I chose a Tarkan Akdam mSATA board, which fitted our seventh-generation iPod, was beautifully made and was compatible with all the mSATA SSDs I tried.

WINDOWS YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISK IPOD PC

Bear in mind that you’ll need a small pile of boards and parts to make the mSATA drive usable from a Windows PC so that the vital last step of formatting the card to suit the iPod’s needs can be completed. You can opt for boards that use CompactFlash (CF) or mSATA storage formats: CF has the advantage that most home users will have a card reader that will take the CF card straight away mSATA has the rather different advantage of going up to a whole terabyte of storage.

Be aware, though, that some are missold on the big auction/buying sites, with sloppy vendor descriptions written by people who haven’t actually tried the upgrade themselves. ZIF converter board: There’s a rich variety of these.

You’ll need a few other tools, and of course the required upgrade parts, but there’s no soldering required to complete the job, so long as your iPod is functioning (or suffers no greater affliction than a defunct hard drive). The best way to apply the required force is with a wide, flat, thin, springy but strong object – a wallpaper scraper. Using a screwdriver means that your back cover – which is of course already scratched and dented – bends out of shape wherever the screwdriver goes. These either hold on tenaciously or break with a momentum-inducing SPANG, ripping out the delicate headphone-jack ribbon cables and flinging them to the far corner of your workroom. There are tack-welded springs down the inner sides of the back cover. Getting inside one of these things requires some unusual tools. Opening these devices is not for the faint of heart. The other is that the generations of iPod Classics capable of such upgrades are made from lumps of the cast, stamped metal. One issue is that the batteries of a nine-year-old iPod are likely to be somewhat below their optimum capacity. Storage isn’t the only hurdle, of course.