[laieboy]

My 10Gig iPod just went out and I would like to swap out the hard drive for a bigger one. Is it hard to do and do I need special tools? Is it even possible or should I just take to the Apple Store and have them fix it? I know it's the hard drive because I can hear it grinding and I'm not able to load any songs into it.

Thanks!

[malcolm347]

dont waste your time....

just buy a new ipod

[laieboy]

Originally Posted by malcolm347

dont waste your time....

just buy a new ipod

Wow, this thing is only a couple of years old and I have to trash it already! Could I expect the same life expectancy from the new video iPod? That would suck if that's the case!

[Langdon]

Originally Posted by malcolm347

dont waste your time....

just buy a new ipod

Bad advice. It is not too complicated to replace the drive once you read up on the process.
It is not hard to do it but finding a hard drive may take some work if you don't go through one of the vendors who deal with only ipods. Do a search heree on the forum to see how others have done it or google iPod repair and a whole bunch of vendors will come up.

Also go to iLounge.com - those guys only deal with iPods so they will have better advice to give than the people here.