Sorry for reviving an old thread.
What's the reasoning behind using a CF adapter and micro SD card instead of a CF card?
What's the reasoning behind using a CF adapter and micro SD card instead of a CF card?
[doublepost=1505447376][/doublepost]Trying to upgrade my iPod 4th/Gen but not sure of the cable connection/adapter? Is there a recommended manufacturer for the adapter?Hey guys!
A few months ago, my previously trusty 4th gen 20 GB iPod photo's (with the color screen) hard drive died on me, so I've been waiting for a good time to buy the necessary equipment to replace the hard drive with a flash card or SSD. Today, I ordered from Amazon, a 1.8" iPod to Compact Flash Adapter, a Compact Flash to SD Card Adapter, and a 64 GB class 10 Micro SD with a Micro-to-SD Adapter!
When it arrives, I'll be sure to post photos of the upgrade, and I hope all goes well! I'm excited to be able to use that iPod again, because I love the 4th gen iPod's feel and the ability to hold all my music, plus the increased speed (and probably battery life) will be awesome as well!
[doublepost=1509230343][/doublepost]Hey guys!
A few months ago, my previously trusty 4th gen 20 GB iPod photo's (with the color screen) hard drive died on me, so I've been waiting for a good time to buy the necessary equipment to replace the hard drive with a flash card or SSD. Today, I ordered from Amazon, a 1.8" iPod to Compact Flash Adapter, a Compact Flash to SD Card Adapter, and a 64 GB class 10 Micro SD with a Micro-to-SD Adapter!
When it arrives, I'll be sure to post photos of the upgrade, and I hope all goes well! I'm excited to be able to use that iPod again, because I love the 4th gen iPod's feel and the ability to hold all my music, plus the increased speed (and probably battery life) will be awesome as well!
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Hi I tried doing this with a 128gb as card and it work with a 900 song test run but after putting over 9000 songs on it the whole thing comes up blank. The memory says it only has 51gb free so the songs are defiantly there but they just don't show up anywhere
[doublepost=1505447376][/doublepost]Trying to upgrade my iPod 4th/Gen but not sure of the cable connection/adapter? Is there a recommended manufacturer for the adapter?
Thanks
Bkoodoo
Thanks for the superfast response ! If we find a solution, you'll be sure to see it posted here. Thinking about going over to a friends house with an Apple computer to see if the ipod can be reformatted as in post #7. But unsure if that would require an Apple/IOS computer for future ipod-itunes syncing....Pete - Sounds like you're seeing similar indications to what I saw with mine (post #78 back in August). I never have figured it out. My poor Ipod is just sitting on my desk, unfixed.
Hi, I am trying to do this upgrade on a 4th gen iPOD for a Friend. Not sure what is going wrong.
*** So asking for some help!.. ***
Here is what we have:
We opened, removed the HDD. Replaced the battery. Replaced the HDD with the adapter, and a Class 1 CF Card to MicroSD Adapter, and a 64GB Sandisk Class 10/U1 MicroSD. The MicroSD is formatted to Fat32. Using iTunes on a Windows 10 Desktop. (Note, Win10 give a popup saying that the HD is not recognized and it needs to be reformatted) When we connect the ipod to the computer, itunes recognizes it, and asks to restore. We agree to restore. See the green bar showing the green bar go to completion. Then get pop-up window saying the the ipod needs to be connected to wall charger to complete. Note that the ipod itself says "do not disconnect". We disconnected the pod from the computer, and plugged in the wall charger. After 15 minutes (or as long as 2 hour) when we disconnect the ipod. Get a apple logo for a second, then get a screen with link to Apple Support.... Have tried this many times. Same result each time. NOTE that the ipod was giving this screen periodically with the old HDD, and we thought this new Flash drive would resolve what we assumed were problems with the HDD.
We did try to let windows to format the drive, but it said it was unable to.
Took out the microsd card and using adapter plugged it into the computer directly. It showed no files on it... FAT32 .
The CF to MicroSd card adapter is this one... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-SD-SDHC-to-Compact-Flash-CF-1-Type-I-Card-Adapter-Converter-16GB-32GB-64GB/332142795849?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
The Adapter to the CFCard is this one... https://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-Compact-Flash-Memory-Card-to-50pin-1-8-IDE-Hard-Drive-SSD-Converter-Adapter/302264660761?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Please ask any questions if I left out anything else important !
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated !
Pete
Hello,
i had the same issue for a while and found a solution.
I have no idea why the adapter needs this process and normal CF cards do not need this process.
- Setup your CF adapter with SD card arrangement you would like to use. If you want to only use one MicroSD make sure you put the SD card in the correct slot. If you are unsure check the size/capacity of the CF card. If its 30MB then move the SD card to the other slot in the adapter and you should have the same capacity of the single card. Dual card set-ups need to be matching (I am using 2x 64GB) and when mounted should show the combined total size.
- Download Easeus Partition Master - and plug in the iPod with installed CF adapter and CF card in to your PC.
- Drive should now pop up and use the above partition tool to format the drive to FAT32. Remember to apply the settings or the drive wont format.
- Now this may sound weird but right click on the iPod drive in the Partition Manager software and hit rebuild MBR. Do not hit apply yet.
- By this point iTunes has most probably complained about the iPod and wants to restore the iPod. This is the tricky part. We want iTunes to restore the iPod and when the restore progress on the PC hits 100% we want to hit the apply button in the partition management software before the iPod reboots.
- If it worked then you should be greeted with "plug iPod in to wall" icon and doing this allows the iPod to finish restoring and you will have a iPod you can now install Rockbox on.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/rockbox/comments/3o9kry/ipod_4g_classic_with_cf_to_sd_adapter_a_howto/
Another way:
After restoring the iPod and connecting the iPod with the wall charger the flashing process fails.
Eject the SD-card and connect it to the pc/mac.
Install and open "AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition".
There are listet 2 partitions on your SD-card, one little and a big one called "IPOD".
Click with the right mouse button on "Disk x"(x for your card) (windows down right) and click "Create new MBR" or something like this (I use the german version).
Click execute (or something like this) in the upper left.
Insert your SD-card in your iPod.
Connect your iPod with your wall charger.
It should work!
BUT: Don't restore your iPod, because you have to repeat the whole operation.
Regards from Germany
Thanks for sharing your method !Just completed this successfully on an iPod Photo with a Mac.
1) Replaced the drive with the adapter and SD Card.
2) Plugged into MacBook Pro, nothing detected.
3) Plugged into FireWire wall charger, folder and exclamation mark displayed. Left this on the charger for 5 minutes.
4) Plugged into the MacBook Pro again, “Do not disconnect” was displayed on the iPod and SD card was detected in Disk Utility and Finder.
5) Tried to erase SD card in Disk Utility. It got stuck on “Unmounting...”.
6) Got impatient and removed the cable from the iPod after 4 minutes.
7) Plugged it in again and iTunes recognised the iPod as corrupted.
8) Restored and voila! It works.
Hello,
i had the same issue for a while and found a solution.
I have no idea why the adapter needs this process and normal CF cards do not need this process.
- Setup your CF adapter with SD card arrangement you would like to use. If you want to only use one MicroSD make sure you put the SD card in the correct slot. If you are unsure check the size/capacity of the CF card. If its 30MB then move the SD card to the other slot in the adapter and you should have the same capacity of the single card. Dual card set-ups need to be matching (I am using 2x 64GB) and when mounted should show the combined total size.
- Download Easeus Partition Master - and plug in the iPod with installed CF adapter and CF card in to your PC.
- Drive should now pop up and use the above partition tool to format the drive to FAT32. Remember to apply the settings or the drive wont format.
- Now this may sound weird but right click on the iPod drive in the Partition Manager software and hit rebuild MBR. Do not hit apply yet.
- By this point iTunes has most probably complained about the iPod and wants to restore the iPod. This is the tricky part. We want iTunes to restore the iPod and when the restore progress on the PC hits 100% we want to hit the apply button in the partition management software before the iPod reboots.
- If it worked then you should be greeted with "plug iPod in to wall" icon and doing this allows the iPod to finish restoring and you will have a iPod you can now install Rockbox on.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/rockbox/comments/3o9kry/ipod_4g_classic_with_cf_to_sd_adapter_a_howto/
Another way:
After restoring the iPod and connecting the iPod with the wall charger the flashing process fails.
Eject the SD-card and connect it to the pc/mac.
Install and open "AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition".
There are listet 2 partitions on your SD-card, one little and a big one called "IPOD".
Click with the right mouse button on "Disk x"(x for your card) (windows down right) and click "Create new MBR" or something like this (I use the german version).
Click execute (or something like this) in the upper left.
Insert your SD-card in your iPod.
Connect your iPod with your wall charger.
It should work!
BUT: Don't restore your iPod, because you have to repeat the whole operation.
Regards from Germany
HI, I have a Quick Question... Will it work OK to do this from Windows 10 Computer? Just checking... Noticed that AOMEI allows me to select the "TYPE of MBR" ; but only gives me 3 different Windows Options! Since the iPod is Apple, want to be Sure that Selecting "Windows 7/8/10/2011/2012" as the TYPE will work in the ipod.
And the closest I can find to "Create new MBR" is "Rebuild MBR" so am assuming that is correct. (It appears between "Surface Test" above, and "Delete All Partitions" below when I right click the mouse on the drive.
Thank you again !
Peter
So, sorry for the double post, but I made some progress. Just in case someone here stumbles across this thread later and runs into the same issue I did:I tried to complete this mod last night, but I keep running into the same issue.
I plug the iPod into my computer (Windows 10). I get a message saying I need to format the drive. I've tried several times to format it. It either gives me an option to format in FAT32, or says that the format can't be completed. iTunes recognizes a corrupt iPod, and if I try to restore it, it gives me error 1439 and says that the iPod can't be restored. It doesn't seem to want to accept the FAT32 formatting. Then I get an "OK to disconnect" message from the iPod. I've tried formatting in both EaseUS and Disk Management, but nothing. Anything else I can try?
So, sorry for the double post, but I made some progress. Just in case someone here stumbles across this thread later and runs into the same issue I did:
I took the SD-CF adapter out of the CF to IDE adapter. A friend had an external SD Card reader (my laptop doesn't have one) and I was able to get the SD card in FAT32 formatting! Following that, I still had the iTunes error 1439. I followed the instructions here. Following the instructions, I'm at least getting a different error. It tells me that it can't restore due to the iPod files being in use on another system. I'm working on trying to resolve that. Wish me luck.
While unfortunately I can't help you much, I can confirm that after restores on my 4th gen. I used normal Apple-branded USB chargers (10W and 12W) to set it up without issue. So you don't have to use a FireWire charger. Not sure if that'll help you, though.Is it possible that the "old" firewire charger is not putting out enough power to complete the restore? Is there any alternative power supply I can try?