Boot from iPod Classic 5G?

[cclloyd9785]

Is there a way I can use my iPod as a bootable USB?

 

[Product FRED]

Yes, but since you'd need to reformat the drive, you wouldn't be able to use it as an iPod until you restore it. So it's one of the other.

 

[cclloyd9785]

I already backed it up. So how can I use it then? I used USB Image Tool to restore an image to it but it then reboots the iPod back to its OOB state. (Until then Windows sees the drive as unaccessable.)

 

[Product FRED]

To restore the iPod back to its original state, just do a restore from iTunes. Use UNetBootin to make a bootable Linux flash drive using your iPod.

 

[cclloyd9785]

I dont want a Linux bootable USB, I want to format it to HFS+ (format OSX uses for iPod anyway) to boot a hackintosh image. Only problems are that Im short my 8 GB USB (lost it), and cant extract the image without puting it on an external drive, which I can only do by erasing the drive completely, and only to a USB.