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Originally Posted by haydnwalker
Sounds to me like a combination problem between the battery (or charging port) and the HDD failing. As even if the HDD was failing the ipod screen should work properly, as its software is on a ROM chip not the HDD itself.
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iPod classic software is loaded from the hard drive not rom firmware, there is a bootstrap in the rom which initiates the loading from the hard drive, similar to the Bios on a computer, which effectively the ipod is.