Does your computer system stop responding when you plug in your iPod? Are you unable to access your iPod files as iTunes cannot recognize your iPod? This behavior may occur due to issues with the system files, file system, or iPod firmware. It may render all your precious files inaccessible and lead to critical data loss. In such circumstances, you need to opt for iPod Data Recovery to get your precious data back, if backup is not available.

When you connect your iPod with your computer, you may come across any of the below symptoms:

  • The system freezes after connecting the iPod and you need to do hard reboot.
  • You should not restore the iPod as system becomes unusable after connecting the iPod.
  • When you connect your iPod Shuffle, it locks up your system applications apart from the Finder application that attempt to utilize it.
  • System Profiler recognizes the iPod, but iTunes and Shuffle Reset utility cannot recognize it.
  • You cannot synchronize the iPod with your computer.
  • You encounter the “iTunes: iTunes.exe – Corrupt File” error message in Windows. It suggests you to run the ChkDsk utility to repair hard drive.
  • The above problem repeats even if you reinstall the iTunes application.

After occurrence of any of the above issues, your iPod data become inaccessible. In order to retrieve data from it, iPod Recovery becomes need of hour.

Cause :

You may come across this problem due to any of the below reasons:

  • The iPod firmware is not compatible with the version of your computer operating system.
  • The iTunes installation is corrupt or its not updated.
  • Critical system files of your iPod is corrupted.
  • File system of your iPod is damaged.

Resolution :

You can try out any of the following methods, as per the cause of the problem:

  • Update the iPod firmware.
  • Reinstall iTunes.
  • Format the iPod disk and restore all the data from backup.

Although formatting the iPod disk can sort out most of the issues, but it also removes all the files from disk. In such cases, the only way to Recover iPod data is to use third party applications.

The iPod Recovery Software can effectively handle all of the data loss issues. They perform absolute recovery in a quick, safe, and easy way.

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery software recovers all types of lost multimedia files, photos, songs, podcasts, videos, and iTunes library, from iPod disk. The software is available for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X in two different versions. It works well with iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle.