I recently paid a firm to replace a broken hard drive on my 80gb iPod. When I got it back it worked and it loaded up fine on my PC but the back cover was unacceptably damaged, the screen now had dead pixels and the new hard drive rattled around inside. Eventually the guy agreed to put all of these things right.
I got it back and everything appeared fine but there was no music on it. I connected it to my PC where it said that it was configured for a Mac?? I got past that but in the middle of loading I realised that the stated capacity was less than 30GB. I let it finish synchronising. Both my PC and the unit itself says there are 27 odd gb of used with 44 mb (Mega not Giga) of space remaining. Connecting it to 2 other computers produces the same result.
The chap offered no explanation other than 'your PC mustn't be reading it correctly'. He hasn't been able to explain why three computers see it the same way.
He has offered to look at it again but I'm reluctant to send it without checking to see what the people at avForums make of it.
Why would a new 80gb hard drive show as <30gb capacity on 3 different computers?
Would you trust this guy to put it right?
Thanks.
Mickster
I got it back and everything appeared fine but there was no music on it. I connected it to my PC where it said that it was configured for a Mac?? I got past that but in the middle of loading I realised that the stated capacity was less than 30GB. I let it finish synchronising. Both my PC and the unit itself says there are 27 odd gb of used with 44 mb (Mega not Giga) of space remaining. Connecting it to 2 other computers produces the same result.
The chap offered no explanation other than 'your PC mustn't be reading it correctly'. He hasn't been able to explain why three computers see it the same way.
He has offered to look at it again but I'm reluctant to send it without checking to see what the people at avForums make of it.
Why would a new 80gb hard drive show as <30gb capacity on 3 different computers?
Would you trust this guy to put it right?
Thanks.
Mickster
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