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???
Please help
Joe

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.

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