The iPod is an innovative piece of consumer electronics marketed by Apple. It is one of the most dynamic and popular digital media players being used today, and will likely remain the preferred choice for  listeners of music,in the near future.

Though iPods are reliable devices, they too can become corrupt  like all other storage devices. It’s highly disturbing, when we end up losing music and photo collections, we had on our iPod.

Common iPod Data Loss Scenarios: Listed below, are some of the common problems encountered by regular iPod users.

• iPod Volume Format ‘Unknown’ or iPod reports an incorrect capacity
• iPod becomes frozen
• iPod database corruption
• Reset, or removal of battery results in loss of contents
• Accidental deletion

All the iPod models (except the iPod Classic models) use a flash memory card for storage of data. In this case, you can recover the data by connecting the flash memory card to your PC using a card reader.Those using iPod Classic models can connect the device directly to the PC for data recovery.

You can subsequently use REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software, for recovering lost photos, and other media files like, audio files and video files of various formats. Try it now!

Note:REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition does not support recovery of files from iPod Touch models.

Steps to recover delete/ lost files from an iPod:

Follow below mentioned steps, to recover lost/deleted files from an  iPod.

Step – 1

Connect the iPod to the PC, where you have installed the REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software.

If the iPod is not detected on the PC, try the following,

In the iTunes program, right click on the iPod icon, and select “iPod Options“. Under the “iPod” tab, place a tick in the box meant for “Enable Disk Use“. Click OK. Disconnect your iPod, and then reconnect it. Check if your iPod is detected by the PC.

If the iPod is still not detected by the PC, try connecting the iPod to another PC, just to make sure, that there has been no physical damage to the device.

Step – 2

Run the  REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software, either by clicking the desktop icon, or by selecting the icon from the Programs list in the Start Menu. The  Main window of the software pops up, as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Program Main Window

Step – 3 : Click on the button. The Select drive window is displayed, as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Select the drive/memory card

Step – 4

Select the drive which contains the lost / deleted data that needs to be recovered, and click on the button.

Note: If the drive  you are looking for is not listed in the list of drives, then click on the  button. This will detect recently connected drives, and display it in the list of drives.

Step – 5

As you click the Next Button,  a new window pops up as shown in Figure c. The window displays, different file types that you can recover, using the software.  Select the required file types you wish to recover, or click on the button, to select all the file types, and click the  button, as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select file type

Step – 6

As you click Next button, the program starts scanning the selected drive for specified file types, and lists all the found files in a tree format grouped according to their respective file types, as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Found files displayed in tree format

Step – 7

After the scanning process is completed, the next and final step in the recovery process, is to restore the found data to a safe location.

Select the data you wish to recover, by selecting specific files, or click on the Root folder, to select all the data, and click the button. As you click the Save button, a window to select the destination drive is displayed, as shown in Figure e.

Figure e: Select Destination drive

Step – 8

Select the destination drive where you would like to save the recovered data.  If you want to save your data in a compressed format, you can select the Compress data option, and click on the  OK button. As soon as you click the OK button, the program starts saving the data to the  selected destination drive, and will pop up a message, once saving is completed, intimating the same.

All the data will be saved in a new folder by name “RemoRecoverPhotoxx xx xx* ” in the specified destination drive.

Note: The Save option is disabled in the Demo Version of the software. You can only preview the files in the Demo version. The Save option gets enabled, once you buy the full version.

Important Note:

• You can preview the file(s) before recovery using the Preview option. To preview the file, double click on the file whose preview is to be viewed. This will display the preview of the file before you could recover it.

• The Save Scan Information feature helps to re-load recovered data tree from a previous scan. This feature comes in handy when you are evaluating the trial version. Not only this, you do not have to re-scan the whole drive once again when using the Full version of the software.

Important: Never copy / save anything onto the drive from which data is being recovered. This may cause overwriting of  the data that is being recovered, resulting in  permanent loss of data.

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