Article:		The Care and Feeding of Your iPod
Subject:		changing the harddisk
Date:		2003-07-30 01:01:11
From:		anonymous2
it seems to be not soo complicated to open the ipod actually. so i was wondering: is there a way to exchange the harddisk with a bigger one?

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• New iPod drive? Only if you work for Toshiba..
  2003-07-31 12:10:37  gbshuler [Reply | View]
  
  
  The 1.8 Toshiba hard drives used in the iPod are not available for purchase. They used to be sold only to Apple. Now there is another product using them, but the Apple ones still have special firmware and a Apple "tattoo" (silkscreen) on the drive indicating so. Without that it won't work.
  
  Second reason you can't.. The cases are all different sizes depending on what drive and what edition of the iPod you have. In other words the case wouldn't fit the new drive.
  
  Forget about it.. Apple is using state of the art drives.

• changing the harddisk
  2003-07-30 06:58:14  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  You could change the hard drive quite easily, the problem comes with partitioning the drive to match the iPods expected scheme.
  
  There was an article linked to from apple.slashdot.org that detailed how to remove the volume limiter on european iPods. These instructions also appear to include information on the iPod's partition scheme and how to set it up and then put the firmware back on the OS partition.