Partitioning Ipod Classic 160gb

Question

I want to make some partitions on my ipod,but i have been unable to. This is what i tried:

• Using windows 7 disk managment didnt allow
• Diskpart command line said :"File system doesnt support shrinking"
• Tried several partitioning programs but the ipod didnt show up on the harddrive list.

Suggestions?

I saw that there were actually 2 partitions on the ipod, one for the firmware and another for the music. But I only see 1 on windows.

Of course i want to still use the ipod as a music player... so i dont want to reformat the whole drive to NTFS and then repartition... or is there a way to backup the data and then restore it to a fat32 partition like nothing happened?

Solution

It doesn't look like you can: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/12/49632-partitioning-ipod-classic.html

The communications in and out of the classic are encrypted which explains all the problems the Rockbox people have been having since the Nano2.

Obviously I might be wrong, but a few Google searches indicate that other people haven't been able to do it either.

Comments

[Jeivier]

gonna try it and telly ou how did it go, thanx

[Jeivier]

Well it seems that none of the 3rd party programs recognizes the ipod as a disk... is this normal??

[quack quixote]

sadly, yes. one of apple's major innovations with the iPod was taking a USB harddrive and making it unusable as a hard drive...

[Jeivier]

Wow... good thing i dont own anything else from apple

[Katerberg]

This only works on iPods that are the generation of the Nanov1 or earlier. AKA anything prior to the iPod Classic. So it does not work.