My Ipod keeps restarting or says "OK to Disconnect"

My 5th Gen Video Ipod works fine when connected to my PC. I can play music on my Ipod via my PC.
However, when I eject it it does one of two things: it reboots over and over again; or it freezes with the check mark "OK to disconnect". I have restored several times, but it hasn't helped.
Can someone please help?

If you want you can go ahead and do a restore again, after you do your restore again and transfer some songs over, try the eject button on the right of the ipod in the source list under devices in itunes 7 if your using itunes 6 go ahead and click the eject button on the bottom bar in itunes. Wait for the ipod to say "okay to disconnect" or wait for it to come up with the menu asking you to choose the language. After you get it to work that time, then make sure you eject it and wait for the menu to say okay to disconnect or just wait until you see the menu
It also sounds like you may have a "bad" song on the ipod, sometimes some of the media we copy to our ipod can cause them to behave in odd ways... So if the first step didn't work, try using just a couple songs and see if that happens.
Good luck.

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Genug geweint -
nach 3 Wochen funktioniert es wieder-I fixed it, after 3 weeks
leider kann ich nicht sagen, an was es liegt/
sorry, but I am not able to tell you what the problem was
Da es jetzt geht, ohne dass ich an Vista etwas geändert hätte, vermute ich, dass eines der Apple Programme des Fehler verursacht.
I did not change anything with Vista but it works now. Though I think the failure occured because of one of the Apple products.
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1. iPod auswerfen / diconnect your iPod
2. holen Sie sich alle wichtigen Windowsupdates/
update your windows
3. holen Sie sich iTunes noch einmal aber installieren Sie es nicht/
download iTunes again, but don't install it.
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6. Da ich keine Zeit mehr hatte habe ich den Computer heruntergefahren und erst mehrere Stunden später wieder angemacht. (ob das spätere Hochfahren von Bedeutung ist werde ich wohl nie erfahren, ich erwähne es nur, um möglichst keinen Schritt auszulassen)
I drove down the computer and turned it on again after a few hours. (Is it necessary to wait a few hours? I don't know. I mention it only)
7. Installieren Sie iTunes / install iTunes
8. starten Sie iTunes / start iTunes
9. verbinden Sie den iPod mit dem Computer / connect your iPod with your PC
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Ich hoffe es klappt auch bei Ihnen.
In my case there were no further messages of a failure. I got music, movies and audiobooks on my daughters iPod.
Interessieren würde mich schon, warum ein System plötzlich spinnt, obwohl ich "außer" updates nichts verändert hatte.
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