How to Restore or update the Ipod ?

Sometimes your iPod may show you strange behavior and does not work properly. In such cases, you may need to restore it or update it to sort out the problem. Restoration method restores your iPod in previous working state and possibly fix the current problems. Updating the iPod updates its data structures and system files to make it work more effectively. However, in some cases, iPod may become inaccessible or unusable when you try to restore or update it. This behavior may lead to critical data loss and require iPod Recovery to extract lost data.

In a practical scenario, you may come across any of the following symptoms while restoring or updating your iPod:

• iPod continually restarts but does not display Home screen.
• The restore or update does not complete successfully and the iPod is not longer recognized by the iTunes.
• iPod stops responding, displaying the Apple logo without any progress bar or stopped progress bar.

In order to resolve this problem and perform iPod Data Recovery in such situations, you need to place your iPod in recover mode and try to restore it again. In some cases, iPod automatically goes into the recover mode after a restore or update issue. You can try to restore the iPod using iTunes application, if it is already in the recovery mode.

How to place your iPod in recovery mode:

• Disconnect USB cable from iPod. Do not disconnect the cable from computer.
• Turn off the iPod.
• Reconnect USB cable with your iPod, while pressing Home button. After this the iPod should power on automatically.
• This process connects your iPod in recovery mode. Use iTunes for restoring the device.

If the restoration process fails in recovery mode as well, you have to restore factory settings to fix the problem. Although, this method is able to resolve all the problems with your iPod, but it also removes all data from the disk and need iPod Recovery Software to work around the problem.

The iPod Recovery applications are particularly designed to scan the iPod disk and extract lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They come equipped with interactive graphical user interface and thus do not require sound technical skills. These recovery tools do not alter or update original data on the disk as they have read-only conduct.

iPod Recovery is the most effective and powerful tool to retrieve lost data from iPod. It recovers lost photos, podcasts, songs, documents, videos, and graphic files. The software works well with iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle.

Error 1413 when restoring iTunes

Whenever an iPod user encounters a problem, the first thing he attempts, in order to resolve the problem, is to restore the iPod. Sometimes during the restoration process, one encounters errors that create obstruction and do not allow successful restoration of the iPod. If a user already has a back-up of the iPod data, compensating the data loss is easy. However, if there is no backup of the iPod data, the best option left is to use an iPod Recovery Software to recover the lost or deleted data.

While restoring the iPod data after any problem has occurred, you may receive the following error message:

'An unknown error has occurred 1413'

The above error message indicates that the iPod could not be restored or updated (as the case may be) properly.

This error message is most commonly seen while trying to update or restore the iPod using iTunes 7 or and later versions. In Windows, this problem often occurs because of the presence of any anti-spyware. These software do not allow iTunes to install properly and thus result in the above error message.

To resolve the problem, de-activate the anti-spyware and then reinstall iTunes onto the system. Once you have reinstalled iTunes, restore or update the iPod by following the restoration steps:
If the problem is not resolved by the above attempt, try the steps given below:

• Exit iTunes. Open Windows Explorer and search for 'C:\Program Files\iTunes' (the iPodUpdaterExt.dll file).
• Run 'cmd' using the 'Run' option from the start menu.
• When the command prompt opens, type regsvr32 followed by the path to the .dll file for example,regsvr32 "c:\Program Files\iTunes\iPodUpdaterExt.dll" where 'c:\Program Files\iTunes\iPodUpdaterExt.dll' is the path of the .dll file.
• After you press Enter, a window will appear which reads: 'DllRegisterServer in c:\Program Files\iTunes\iPodUpdaterExt.dll shttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifucceeded.'
• Close the window.
• Re-open iTunes and restore the iPod.

The above procedure may help you restore the iPod but not its data. You can recover all the deleted iPod data using an iPod Recovery Software. The software can also recover data lost due to formatting or restoring of the iPod. The software scans the iPod hard disk to Recover iPod data. One must select the software carefully since many gimmicks damage the data during the recovery process.

This tool is one such trustworthy iPod Recovery Software which retrieves all kinds of iPod data. The tool supports various formats, such as MP3, M4A, AVI, MOV, etc. The software has an easy-to-use interface so you do not require any prior technical knowledge to recover lost iPod data.