Posted on 10/12/11

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Went to upgrade my iPad to iOS 5 today, but iTunes said:
The iPad “Cameron’s iPad” could not be restored. An internal error occurred.
I have tried restarting and various other things. I even erased and reset the iPad and started setting it up from scratch. Yet when I tried to upgrade it to iOS 5, I got the exact same error message. Is my iPad a brick? —–
Cameron

6 Responses to “iPad could not be restored despite erase and reset”

  1. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    10/12/11 at 1:39 pm

    Lots of people (including me) experiencing this. Rumors has it it is because Apple’s servers are overloaded and the step where it verifies something isn’t working. People are trying multiple times and finding that it eventually goes through.
    I’m still trying…

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  2. jdy says:
    10/12/11 at 2:46 pm

    I also had this problem – it said “iPad could not be restored; an internal error occurred”, but I kept trying and it seems to be working now (fingers crossed)

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  3. Cameron says:
    10/13/11 at 6:40 am

    You were right. It did finally work. I also had to try multiple times to get MobileMe moved to iCloud, but it finally worked last night. Now if my iPhone 4S would just get here! :-)

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