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Any one have any experience with error 26 in iTunes? I’m drawing a blank with apple’s arbitrary error codes and troubleshooting suggestions. Edit: I’m shooting to try to resolve this error code without data loss, but it appears that this will most likely not be a possibility.

This gives specific solution for error 26: http://www.techinpost.com/how-fix-solve-… Turn off your iPhone Open iTunes & then Connect your device to your PC by USB cable Press & hold Home + sleep/wake button for some seconds Now, release the power button You will get ‘Connect to iTunes Screen.’ Now, your iPhone will be detected in ‘Recovery Mode.’ Backup & Restore the Data That’s it, done

Actually i had the same error but using idevicerestore on linux (only got a ubuntu XD) the error message is very clear: BlockFindAll: found 926 blocks but needed 28996 Disk full error The volume Data could not be repaired. volume type is pure HFS+ primary MDB is at block 0 0x00 alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00 primary VHB is at block 2 0x02 alternate VHB is at block 25380774 0x18347a6 sector size = 512 0x200 VolumeObject flags = 0x07 total sectors for volume = 25380776 0x18347a8 total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00 CheckHFS returned 8, fsmodified = 0 fsck failed on /dev/disk0s1s2 leaving fsck_filesystems, returning 26 Looks like this error indicates a broken filesystem…

Hi Brian Lang, Here is a good link to the Error 26. Please let me know if it helps :)

Hi. i m stuck in same situation after trying to upgrade iOS 12.4.9 to 12.5.1 on my iPhone 5s in 2021. any new developments that can restore this error 26 today in 2021?

Oh awesome. That will be great. I have an iphone 5s with the same