{"id":61,"date":"2011-03-26T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexxweb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:47:00","slug":"fixed-ipod-crashing-itunes-restore-error-ipod-classic-160gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Fixed: iPod Crashing iTunes &#038; Restore Error &#8211; iPod Classic 160GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>An iPOD classic 160GB was causing iTunes to freeze each time it was connected (on more than one windows 7 64bit machine).<\/li>\n<li>When trying to restore iTunes gave the following error: iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred 1439.<\/li>\n<p><strong>To Solve iTunes Crashing Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the device was first given to me I <strong>formatted it using FAT32 filesystem<\/strong> (iTunes would crash and I would not be able to use the restore button). I reformatted it <strong>using gparted in ubuntu<\/strong> because Windows 7 would only let me use exFAT &#8211; this is no good.<\/p>\n<p>After formatting the device it would no longer crash iTunes so I could then try to restore it using the correct iTunes restore button. Unfortunately, the restore would fail and the following error would be given:<strong> iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred 1439.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Solve iPod restore error (<\/strong><strong>iPod could not be restored &#8211; <\/strong><strong>An unknown error occurred 1439.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next step which took me ages to figure out was to use a windows XP virtual machine to install an old version of iTunes. After iTunes was installed on the XP box I was able to restore the iPod as normal.<\/p>\n<p>My main computer was running windows 7 64bit and iTunes 10. &#8211; This configuration would not restore the iPod and would always have the 1439 error.<\/p>\n<p>The windows XP computer was running 32bit windows and <a title=\"iTunes 9.2.1.5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lexxweb.co.uk\/files\/iTunesSetup_9.2.1.5.exe\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes 9.2.1.5<\/a> &#8211; this worked correctly and the iPod appears to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptoms: An iPOD classic 160GB was causing iTunes to freeze each time it was connected (on more than one windows 7 64bit machine). When trying to restore iTunes gave the following error: iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred 1439. To Solve iTunes Crashing Problem: When the device was first given to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipod-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lexxweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}