"The disk cannot be read from or written to" or

I recently updated my itouch software to the 3.1.2 software and when i restored it like I was supposed to my songs synced onto my itouch but you couldn't see them. On my computer it said my music was on my itouch but when I went to my library on my itouch, it said that my library was empty. When i plug my itouch into a different computer and turn it off and back on the music pops up. when i try to sync A message will come up and say the disk cannot be read from or written too and another pops up and says the required disk cannot be found. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this problem because i'm going on a trip in a couple weeks, and i want my ipod to be working?

bday10 wrote:
when i try to sync A message will come up and say the disk cannot be read from or written to
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I wonder if the disk being referred to is actually your iPod which is not plugged in. Maybe something has stuck thinking the iPod should be there.
Try completely removing all the iTunes related programs according to this method.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Restart you PC and see if startup improves.
If it doesn't improve you need to consider the possibility that there is something else going on.
If The problem goes away, hopefully a fresh install will be OK.

The ipod cannot be synced. The disk cannot be read from or written to

What does this mean?

I am getting the same message: I don't know how to reboot, or restore. Can someone help me? This is what I've put up with so far:
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The Ipod cannot be updated - The Disk cannot be read from or written to!!!!

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Help needed from somone very smart, very proAPPLE , THIS IS REALLY PISSINNNNGGG ME OFFFF, i cant drag music in the ipod, i can use it as data but this message keeps on poping up!...This is the second time i change my ipod shuffle.
Does anyone else have this problem???
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Try using the apple updater to do a restore. (I had to uninstall the updater and iTunes then reinstall just the updater do the restore then reinstall itunes.)
After it's been restored, make sure you've got music in your library. When iTunes next recognises the restored shuffle it should start to automatically copy music to the iPod. While it's doing this, go in to the ipod optons and tick the 'enable disk use' box.
After doing this you'll need to click the eject button evry time you want to unplug the iPod but at least it should work.

The disk cannot be read from or written to.

This is the infuriating message that I get when I try to autofill my shuffle via itunes.
I have found a way around it :- restore the ipod software and when I plug it in again it automatically fills with tunes. But this is very long winded and I shouldn't have to restore the ipod software every time I want to fill it, should I?
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this shows us that apple is just big crap with a useless hotline and helpdesk, i called them a few times now because i have the same problem ..... i am not able to put/remove songs on my shuffle manually if i try the error: "on this ipod cannot be written and reading is also impossible" .... so i searched the web and and found some where that its only possible to fill the ipod automatically after i do a firmware reset..... *** ...
so i remember that since i upgraded the ipod to 1.12 the shuffle function is not working very well and a few days and itunes v6 later the trouble started
i have the ipod about 6 months now so i got gurantee but the ** called apple wants money for that. i am thinking about to inform the Customersafety here in Germany cause that cannot be inline with the rules!!
as final i just have to say i am so dissapointed i will never by apple products again in my life
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this started in perhaps the last week or so - i tried updating my mini and it took ages. so i decided i would restore it instead, and as it was doing so, a message popped up and told me that the restore process could not take place because the "disk cannot be read from or written to". so then i went to the apple site and looked the problem up. i followed each troubleshooting instruction and still nothing worked.
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It sounds like you are getting this error message that your iPod cannot be read from or written to when you are trying to update your iPod Nano. I recommend the troubleshooting from the following article to help you get that resolved. Its pretty straight forward, just start at the top and work your way down as needed:
'Disk cannot be read from or written to' when syncing iPod or 'Firmware update failure' error when updating or restoring iPod
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Disk cannot be read from or written to

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The problem smells like a firmware bug.
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I had similar problems, it was a nightmare and on a 3 month ipod too!. I use a Powerbook G4 at home and a G5 at work - both were returning the same problems. so I sent it off to apple, they quickly sent it back saying there was nothing wrong with and it didn't need to be repaired. I tried it again and the same problems occurred "disc cannot be written to or read from." I could copy 20 songs onto it at the very most. A couple of guys at my work suggested updating it on a PC, then adding tunes via my mac as normal - guess what!? it works a treat!?. How ridiculous is that!? an Apple product works best on a PC. these generations of ipods are obviously designed to work best on Intel based Macs. What is wrong Apple? are you abandoning the G-generation!? still, atleast my ipod works for now - it will prove a problem when I have to update the iPod's software since I don't own a PC or an intel-based Mac.

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Let me add the advice Polydorus gave me to get back library: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1327455&tstart=0 You haven't give enough information to tell exactly what the problem is.
Did you copy the iTunes folder to the d: drive, this folder contains the library databases and the iTunes Music folder.
If you did that, you can try starting iTunes with the shift key held down, when asked to choose a library, navigate to the iTunes folder on the external drive and choose iTunes Library.itl.
This only works if you copied the iTunes folder and you had a default arrangement with all your music files in the iTunes Muisc folder in the iTunes folder.
If you didn't do that and you don't mind losing your counts, ratings and playlists you can do the following:
I am going to assume that you still have your iTunes folder on the c:drive. Close iTunes and drag iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music library.xml out of the iTunes folder to the desktop.
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So I bought my friend's iPod Touch. I've talked to her about this issue and she's never experienced anything of the sort. When I got her iPod Touch I downloaded the newest software (3.1.2).
It's still currently running on 3.1.2 (as I know of no way to set it back to a previous version). When I try to update the iPod it will sync fine until reaching certain songs. These songs will freeze iTunes entirely for a few moments, an error message will pop up saying "Disk cannot be read from or written to". The only way I could go around this predicament was to go through my library and un-check the songs which caused the iPod sync to fail. This is quite annoying having to have several songs un-checked as some of them are the songs I want to listen to.
What can I do to fix this? I've reset and restored everything. Multiple times. Yet to no avail.
The error occurs only with songs, I have not run in to any errors updating applications (yet).
I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the iPod Touch is running 3.1.2 (the newest update), the iPod was originally purchased back in July.

I suggest you read through the following article for some help: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1207
Normally, if you have a DRM'd song that you do not own, you will get an error (not this one, however) that the song will not/cannot be copied to your iPod. My feeling is that you might have some corrupted files.

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