Partitioning Ipod Classic 160gb

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?

Jeivier

Posted 2010-01-09T16:14:36.770

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Answers

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.

Katerberg

Posted 2010-01-09T16:14:36.770

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Here is a (very old) post for mac users on how to partition your ipod. I dont know if its valid anymore http://www.macgeekery.com/node/6

unfortunatly i dont own a mac and cant try it out...

– Jeivier – 2010-01-09T19:11:26.663

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. – Katerberg – 2010-01-12T06:13:51.660

since you can use Norton Ghost Enterprise (v8 or v11) to backup and restore the iPod classic, you might be able try to restore to a different partition size (as long as the amount of data used doesn't exceed the availabe space on that partition) and then use the rest to your likings.

Molly7244

Posted 2010-01-09T16:14:36.770

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gonna try it and telly ou how did it go, thanx – Jeivier – 2010-01-09T22:14:08.840

Well it seems that none of the 3rd party programs recognizes the ipod as a disk... is this normal?? – Jeivier – 2010-01-09T22:32:18.380

1sadly, yes. one of apple's major innovations with the iPod was taking a USB harddrive and making it unusable as a hard drive... – quack quixote – 2010-01-09T23:13:39.983

1Wow... good thing i dont own anything else from apple – Jeivier – 2010-01-10T01:37:36.447