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I'm an iPod mechanic!

EricBall

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Last night I replaced the hard drive (which had died) & battery in my wife's iPod color. So now she's happy again. Plus I upgraded the drive from 20GB to 30GB and replaced the faceplate with a brand new glossy black one (from the U2 model).

 

The only difficulties were finding a Torx T6 screwdriver (well, not that hard, but I think only one multibit at Home Depot had it) and prying open the case. (It looked much easier in the how-to video.)

 

Oh, and I did manage to install Win2K onto the TP760ED and it's been quietly (heck, it's silent except when it's actually working) running for almost a month. My only mistake was partitioning the drive rather than sticking with a single 4GB partition, which made installing the SP tricky. (I had to partition to try to avoid some bad blocks on the drive.) When the drive dies I'm going to put in a CF adapter and a 4GB CF card.

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EricBall
Did the battery come with tools to open the iPod? When I bought a new battery for my old 20GB iPod, tools were included with it.

Yes, tools were part of the eBay deal. It still took a lot of work to pop the case open.

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Cybergoth

:)

 

Well, my wife needs it too. We both prefer a coffee:milk ratio of 2:1, so when we add so much milk we usually end up microwaving the coffee to make it drinkable ;)

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My wife occasionally does, but unless you're doing a couple of coffees in a row is microwaving it afterwards easier.

 

My coffee works (:)) at work, but it might be because there we don't have fresh milk, so it doesn't come from the fridge ;)

 

Sorry to hijack the blog. Maybe it is possible to connect an iPod to a Senseo? :)

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