Pending Sector Count Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors).
Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). article: Reallocated Sectors Count Count of reallocated sectors. To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T. Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. With modern disk drives sectors are no longer marked bad by a disk scan, if the SMART firmware detects a sector it has trouble accessing it will attempt to invisibly reallocate it to a spare area of the disk. When finished press MENU+SELECT for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again. For comparison here are mine taken when my 6th Generation Classic was about 2 years old: Retracts: 889 Reallocs: 12 Pending Sectors: 0 PowerOn Hours: 2202 Start/Stops: 894 Temp: Current 24c Temp: Min 10c Temp: Max 50c Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button | HardDrive > HDSMARTData to reveal your stats. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots.
Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. It is possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Most third party tools will probably require the device to have a functioning library however the method given in Recover media from an iPod should work as long as the device still shows up in Windows Explorer or Finder. See the user tip Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device for some recovery tools.
What follows are tips for restoring your iPod, but if it is the only location currently hosting some of your media then the first task is to try to extract it.
Recover media from a manually managed iPod Here are a number of things to try if you are having problems updating your iPod classic, or if your computer freezes when it is connected.
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