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| Speeding Up Your iPod |
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| I recently
purchased an iPod, you know, one of them video ones. Its great and all,
but until I discovered some neat tricks did the fun start. Remember
that the following tips are done by you under your own risk, I have tried
them on my 5th Generation iPod with success, but I cannot guarantee anyone
else's. I take no responsibility in any damage, failure, loss of data that
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Speeding
Up Your iPod |
| Not many people
know it, but the iPod serves as an external harddrive. Once plugged in,
you can put data on the drive from your PC and retrieve it through another
computer later. And like most hardrives, after gigs of data, the disk becomes
fragmented. And to speed up our loading times on our PC... we defragment
our harddrives; which we will do to the iPod. It won't speed up the Computer,
but on the iPod when navigating menus and songs; everything loads faster.
Only do this after every 200 songs or so, as since the iPod HD is very small,
it will get warm in the process and ultimately cut your iPod's life when
overused. If you barely have 200 songs on your player, don't bother defraging
as it won't really make a difference. Defraging will not erase anything
on any devices, it only orders the data more effeciently so it can be accessed
faster. Click images to enlarge. |
Step
1: Connecting the iPod |
We
aren't transfering music so turn off all programs you use to send
music to the device. We don't want any software accessing the harddrive
while we are defragmenting the drive. Do as you usually do and plug
the iPod into the computer and wait for the "Do not Disconnect"
screen to appear on your device.
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Step
2: Defrag My iPod! |
A
simple and easy defrag program is Window XP's own system defragmenter.
Another good 3rd party application that is used in doing this is
called Diskeeper and DiskWarrior, but I have not tried them. If
you followed the previous step, go to "My Computer" and
your iPod should be listed as a hardrive.
Right
click the drive icon and in the dropdown menu, select "Properties".
A new window will pop up with multiple tabs on the top. We want
the "tools" tab. Here, you will find two buttons; one
for error checking and one that says "Defragment Now".
I've been searching through the net and it seems doing error check
will cause errors in both machines, so I do no support doing that.
Instead, go ahead and click "Defragment Now".
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Step
3: Defragging |
The
windows Defragment program will now load with the iPod HD selected.
Go ahead on click "Defragment" to start the process. Now,
just wait until the program is finished, which shouldn't take more
than a few hours if you have a completely full iPod.
Now,
to safely remove the iPod, open up iTunes and select your iPod,
on the bottom right corner, click "Eject iPod" |
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Written
by MikeMania on December 22, 2005 |
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