What's wrong with my iPod classic?

About a month ago, I didn't safely remove my iPod classic from my laptop, and all of my music was erased. Since then, I've been trying to restore the music that I had on it before. But a few days ago when I tried to manually move some of my older music (from an older computer) onto the iPod, it started to flash the Apple logo and then shut off.
I went online, found out to make the go away, and it did for a while. (By this, I mean that I put it in disk mode, formatted the iPod, and then I restored it to factory settings.) But then today when I tried to put music from that same old computer on the iPod again, it erased everything. Then when I tried to put the music from my present computer on it, it started to flash the logo again and then told me it wasn't formatted.
At present, I have restored it, and when I sync my music, it stays on the iPod. Is there a problem with my Classic? Should I not be trying to manually upload my music? Any assistance would help me greatly. I have no idea what's going on.

If you have restored your iPod and can sync it, then it is still good.
The cause of all this problem, is when you disconnect the iPod when Syncing took too long, so to prevent it happening I would suggest the following, when you want to sync the iPod.
Disconnect all other USB devices, except keyboard and mouse
Use the USB2.0 port (at the back of the desktop, if you are not using a notebook)
Do not use any USB Hub.
Antivirus or other plugins conflict with iTunes - Stop the Antivirus and plugins,
Disconnect from Internet, as malware and other broswer plugins interferes with the Sync.
But do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted earlier by tt2, it wont fix your problem, but let you know if your Hardisk need replacing.

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