Tarkan iflash9/12/2023 ![]() Thanks again to both Peters for your helpful advice. ![]() To commit the action you need to APPLY (Top Left Icon).ģ15 thoughts on “ Prepare SDXC (ExFat) for use with the iPod” In the main window, right click on the SDXC drive and select REBUILD MBR and confirm, leaving the default Windows 7/8. In the example below I am using a 256Gb SDXC – It is shown as removeable in the drive list. Install SDXC card in to SD-CF Adapter, and place it in the CF card reader. So before starting double check that you are working on the SDXC card – better safe than sorry!! ![]() IMPORTANT: Make sure that the drive you are modifying is the SDXC card and not another Hard Drive installed in your Computer, you have been warned. If you are going to use a SD card reader make sure it is SDXC compatible as you can damage the SDXC card – normal SD or SDHC card readers will not work with SDXC cards. You will need a CF card reader, you can also use a SDXC card reader. The steps will be slightly different, but the process and concepts should be similar. I have created a walk through on how to get the SDXC card in to a known good state before installing and restoring the iPod.įirst you need to get a partition manager software, I use the free AOMEI Partition Assistant, download here!! but only for Windows PC’s, for MAC users any of the popular partition software on MacOS will work. The symptoms tend to be slow music transfer, odd syncing errors, song skipping and iPod freezing up. This only applies to SDXC cards 64Gb and above in capacity, as these are the cards which are ExFAT formatted by default. Some of the factory fresh ExFAT formatted SDXC cards cause problems in the iPod, I have not been able to determine the exact cause but I suspect the iTunes restore process does not write a fresh MBR (Master Boot Record) nor does it create a new partition table – just modifies the existing table. Oh, also windows device-manager or disk-manager can sometimes 'see' a more complete disk capacity than explorer does.*** IMPORTANT – This article is up as an reference, first install and restore the iPod, if you have problems then attempt these instructions *** Wouldn't surprise me if there were a limit with the Tarkan adaptor. Would be sort-of-usable, except you'd be stuck syncing with rockbox, with all the disk error problems that involves, so until they fix rockbox's ata driver that wouldn't be a real solution. I was wondering if there was any upper limit due to the hardware (as I've reached about 1.5Tb myself).ĭoes it show the full capacity if you don't restore the ipod the normal iTunes way but just format it from within windows? That's not a usable solution, obviously, though if it worked to that extent, you might be able to install rockbox (perhaps using the old emcore method?), which might give a clue as to what might be going on. That's very interesting to know (crikey, four 1Tb cards must cost a humungous amount! I suspect you are the first to try this). You might be better off going for one of Tarkan's made-for-ipod iFlash adapters If 1 and 2 check out ok then there's a fault or compatibility problem with the adapters. Test both with and without the SD-CF adapter.ģ. Double-check capacity of SD card in a card reader. I've seen that with original drives and bad ribbon cables.ġ. The fact you get gibberish in the ipod's diagnostics page points to some sort of communication problem. ![]() Those cheap CF-ZIF adapters can be tricky to get the ribbon cable attached properly - the cable can go too far in and miss the contacts. For info, I have a Qumox microSD to CF adapter but it does not work in an ipod but works ok in a card reader. I have a several CF-SD adapters that look similar to yours (Googling the description) and have used them ok with SDXC cards. I suspect it's either the CF-SD adapter or the CF-ZIF adapter (or both!). ![]()
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