The earliest mention of these Hard Drives were 2004, 3 years after the release of the first iPod. Welcome everyone, to the 1.8" Toshiba Hard Drive page, no matter if you've stumbled across here from the iPod page, or found one of these Drives in your drawer or from the exposed elements, if you wanna fix it then you've come to the right place!
Hard drives are absolutely not fixable, all fixes are temporary to only allow data extraction and any repairs cost more than the drive itself, so just return the thing.