Ipod shuffle won't stay connected in itunes

I have an old ipod shuffle, the kind that's white and looks like a flash drive. I just got a new Windows 7 laptop, and installed itunes on it. I spent a few hours transferring all of my music over to itunes on the new laptop. Then, when I plugged my ipod shuffle into the laptop, it wouldn't properly synch. It makes a "beep" sound, flashes that it's available in the itunes screen, disappears, beeps again, reappears, etc. I checked in control panel and my computer, and it really is appearing in my computer, then disappearing, then reappearing. I tried to plug my ipod into all of the different USB ports. I also tried restarting my computer.
How do I get it so I can access my ipod on my laptop?

I have two iPod shuffle 2nd gen, neither is working on any of my mac's, I have 10.6.1 on two of the
computers along with the latest version of iTunes ver 9 (70) I had the same issue with 10.5.8 and the
last version of iTunes. I've reset both with the "iPod reset utility". It takes forever to mount the shuffle
in iTunes, when it does show and I try to copy anything to the iPod shuffle it fails! It's interesting that
this seems to have happen around the same time that the 3rd generation iPod shuffle came onto the
market, I smell a rip-off, yes Steve are you listening (possibly NOT!) Any how I've very disappointed with
Apple as this is an issue and they seem to don't really care, they just won't you to purchase more
STUFF, well I still have my iPod touch and iPod classic, once they die or Apple decides to mess up
the software then I'll possibly look else where.

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