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Nothing is perfect!!! Even machines no matter how well designed they are, are prone to some or the other kind of damage or mal function. This could happen to any one and at any time. A simple rule we all know is, that when you use any kind of a storage device, you should take care to always have a back-up for all the data stored on it. But what’s the point of knowing it when hardly any of us follow that simple rule!!! This only means that our own data is at risk at any given point of time.

An iPod is a portable media player. It can store a large number of songs on it. You can arrange them in playlists, according to genre, artists etc. But since it is no exception to the data loss treat that all storage devices face, one should try and ensure that the data is backed up. However sometimes, the back-up may also fail. Most of us back-up iPod data onto iTunes. But what if iTunes fails?

Then how is one supposed to retrieve their songs etc? It can still be salvaged using an iPod Recovery tool . For instance, when you have connected your iPod nano to the computer, and you get the following message: “The folder iTunes is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder.” This simply means your My Music folder is not in the correct location.

You can resolve this problem by verifying the location of the folder. The location is usually: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music If you cannot find the folder, create a new one inside the My Documents folder. The other way of getting out of this sticky situation is to re-install iTunes. In either case you will lose your data and this could be troublesome especially for those who have a lot of playlists etc stored on it.

The reason for data loss when you re-install iTunes, is that your iPod syncs automatically to the iTunes on the system. This does not mean iTunes copies data from iPod, it’s actually the other way around—iPod copies what’s on iTunes. So if your iTunes is blank, all the files from iTunes will automatically get deleted. In such situations, after restoring iTunes, you can use an iPod data recovery software and recover iPod files. The software works on the principal that when data is erased from any hard drive, it is only marked as erased. The information still remains in the file system.

This means that when you try and access the data you cannot, but specially designed softwares scan the file system and retrieve the information. Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery, is a software which recover iPod data with ease. This software allows for users to scan the hard drive and then retrieves iPod and iTunes data. It supports MP3, MP4, AVI, MOV, WAV etc formats. It is compatible with iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and iPod Mini.