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iPod Tip: How to Make your iPod Faster

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ipod Reader Jai Ram asks, “My iPod has become very sluggish, the menu access also takes lot more time now. It was good when I first bought it, can the same performance be restored?”

Jai Ram your iPod’s performance can be restored by simply defragmenting it.

Pre-requisite:

  • iPod data cable.
  • iTunes (latest version preferable)

Here is how to do it: (this procedure is applicable in Windows Vista, the procedure for Windows XP is more or less the same)

1. Connect your iPod to your computer. Open iTunes and make sure that you have enabled Disk mode for iPod.

ipod_disk


2. Now that your iPod is in Disk mode, you should be able to see your iPod as a removable storage device. Go to “My Computer” and right click your iPod and select the “Properties” menu. Now select the “Tools” tab in the window that pops up.

toolstab

3. Once you are in Tools tab select, first scan your iPod’s file system for any errors. You can do this by the disk scanning utility of Windows. This utility would fix file system errors if there are any present in your iPod.

error checking

Now select the “Automatically fix file system errors” check box in the window that appears.

scan_disk

4. After the scan disk finishes, you can now start defragmenting your iPod. The defragmenting option can be found in the same Tools tab.

ipod_defrag

5. After defragmentation process is over, disconnect the iPod. Now your iPod should be as fast as it was before. :)

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14 Responses to “iPod Tip: How to Make your iPod Faster”

  1. I find it amusing that you assume all your readers use Windows. (There is iTunes for Mac OS X, ya know)

    Updated Pre-requisites:

    * iPod data cable.
    * iTunes (latest version preferable)
    * Some version of WinBlows

  2. Travis-
    I am windows user and I write tips and tricks about windows. I have never used Mac hence I don’t write tips about Mac OS.
    Well I assume all my readers use windows as the Stats of my blog says so. Looks like you are my first Mac OS based reader. :)

  3. Well, I must be your second Mac OS based reader!

  4. Looks like you now have two Mac visitors ;-P

  5. Charlie-
    It is good to see that I have two Mac OS based readers. :)

  6. de-fraging now, makes sense to me. My ipod (80g) has a mind of it’s own now: won’t play, won’t shut off, won’t turn on, won’t connect to my computer, etc, etc…..unless I do the dance….lock on-lock off-lock on-lock off, reboot, turn around touch my nose, squat, burb up my beer…other than that I love it

  7. Schnurrbart Does it work and do u have windows or a mac because i would like to know before i will preform this to my ipod and my ipod is really my life so plz write back..

  8. K
    I have windows, de-fraging did work, it did not harm the ipod in any way….no lose of any info or songs. If you have lots of songs like me (over 4000) it takes hours and hours to defrag. But it was worth it, I still sometimes have to lock on lock off (only once) to shutdown, but the performance is 99% better now. I have defrag’d twice(second time does not take hours).
    I used “UltraDefrag” (free program) since it is faster than windows defrag.

  9. i have a ipod nano 3g, so i cant do it on that can i. but my ipod is so slow, how can i make it go faster? plz reply asap

  10. i think it’d work just fine no matter what ipod you have

  11. o thanks oliver, other sites said it only works on ipods woth a hdd
    i tried it and it works :)

  12. @Herminator

    Defragmentation is a process that puts the data of files back together near each other on a HDD, when, after long use, they become fragmented and seperated. Defragmentation is a basic part of HDD maintenance.

    Because of the nature of flash memory, (Which is what an iPod nano is) it doesn’t need to be defragmented and defragmenting does absolutely nothing.

    So yes, it “works” but it didn’t actually do anything. It just completed because there was nothing to do.

  13. lol ok, no wonder its still slow :P
    so is there any way of making it faster?

  14. If you actually used the Mac HFS+ format (the desired format of ipods) it doesn’t require defragmenting. It’s basically unheard of on macs… it’s soooo 80s :-)

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