Old iPod HDD (For use in a netbook)

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kitibob7

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I'm trying to use an old iPod harddrive in a netbook but am struggling to format the hdd as I'd like. I can get it to format as FAT32 or ExFat but not NTFS.

Most questions like this online are just for using the iPod as an external drive, but I need to load windows onto this and so need to be able to format it to NTFS. Even when I do manage to get it to format to exFat, Ubuntu can't seem to load onto it.

I'm thinking of buying a ZIF to SATA adapter so that I can do stuff on my desktop using windows, as the only way I can do it at the moment is by using ubuntu on a pen drive in the netbook. Is there any point? Is it at all possible?

Thanks, Kit.
 
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Barty1884

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Is there any point? Probably not, but whatever.

I suspect you still have some remnants of the ipod firmware on that HDD, and that's why you can't get NTFS to work (as it's not a supported format by an iPod).

A full deletion of all partitions & formatting, should allow you to convert to NTFS.....at least in theory. Might need to erase & format via an elevated CMD Prompt though.

There shouldn't be anything special about an older iPod's HDD - they were just 1.8" drives made by.... Toshiba? Maybe Samsung.
 
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kitibob7

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Oh it's just that the many many many year old 8gb SSD it's got currently is on its last legs, and it'd be nice to have more than 8gb... I'm pretty sure they did a version with a 1.8" hdd which was about 80gb so I don't doubt the mobo can handle it.

I'll give that a shot, a quick google search shows how to format using ubuntu's terminal.

Thanks very much :)
Kit
 
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