Can this iPod be saved?

[patr]

iPod classic - 30 gig - froze during play - will not reboot. I have a frowny faced iPod picture w/ an exclamation mark and a web sie for apple help.

When I try to sync nothing else will come up other than the web address for help. When I visit that web site they want to sell me a warranty. Any ideas? Is it toast?

[mbw1024]

you can't reset it? holding two buttons down at once? I forget which ones. if that doesn't work I'd take it to the Apple store before considering it toast.

[Pete (Mr. Marcia)]

This might be helpful:

http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/79

[California Girl]

My hubby's iTouch has frozen up on him twice in the past 2 yrs. and each time he takes it into the Apple store and they give him a new one. I know someone else who also kept getting new ones each time she took her dead one into the store.

[Anthony]

Every one I ever bought still works going back to the original. I have two that have gone into your state. One of them I brought to the Apple store in the Freehold mall a couple of years ago. The "genius" wanted to take it - it was several years old and would have been hundreds to repair. I said no thanks (because I could hear it would still spin occasionally).

I literally banged it on my desk a couple of times, and the disk started spinning again. Same thing for the other one. The old ones have the physical spinning disks and sometimes the arm just gets stuck. I am not kidding, I would give it a good rap on a desk or something, then do the re-boot sequence (or do that first - slide the hold switch back and forth a couple of times and then do the 2 buttons held at once trick). If it does reboot, it may be blank - but I was okay with that.