Hello everyone,

I am new here and I have a quick question about which tool to buy for iPod Hard Drive Repair/Recovery. I have a small business buying and selling iPods. Many come to me with bad hard drives that give errors when in the iPod. My question is this... What would be the best and most economical tool for me to buy that would allow me to copy data from a bad HDD to a good one and more important, restore or repair bad drives? I want to be able to take a drive that currently is not working in the iPod and repair it so I can put it back in and it will work and be dependable for some time.

I am also considering buying lots of As Is iPod drives and trying to repair them to sell as used, but working drives. Any suggestions for which tool would be best? I have heard that the Kat2 Katana would be great but I think it has been discontinued. Is the Ninja (Standard, Kaze, or Forensic) a good choice? Which of the Ninja products would do what I need it to? I know a lot of people recommend the Deepspar but it is out of my price range right now.

Any help would be appreciated.

What exactly are you hoping to "repair"? How do you expect that an imaging solution like ninja or deepspar would help to achieve that end?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

You want a 100$ tool. Impossible. Toshiba and Toshiba OEM are undocumented, so AFAIK only 2/3 tools can work on them and with BIG limitations, too. Few people ( ) have developed independent knowledge. Solution: send to such a laboratory the drives for mass repair (only the ones that have repairable surface problems). You have less hassle, everyone work, everyone is happy. This works only for medium/big numbers, not for bedroom based business(es). Otherwise, you have to find a source for the spare parts at an acceptable price. The problem is that in your business model the average customer is lowest target, no money. And I haven't touched the TAXES ARGUMENT.

P.s. Ninja and similar are cloning tools, not for fixing.