The ways they don’t tell you: the fourth option.
- Get it repaired by a non Apple person. A cursory look on the internet tells me this costs around £150.
- Get Apple to replace my ipod (the now redundant 40g black and white fella) for £160.
- Hand in my old one and pay either £219 for a 30g colour one or £300 for a 60g colour one.
ANYWAY the upshot is that I did some searching on the web and this one bloke suggested, and I kid you not, that when the hard drive does the initial whirring as it starts, you WHACK it hard and that sorts it out. I tried that and….
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I did that to mine when it started playing up. It rattles now…
I think I’d just be too scared to give it a good whack! But then I suppose if it’s not working anyway, what have you got to lose?