Attempt to copy failed message

when i try to synch my ipod after a minute or two i get a message that says- attempt to copy to phils ipod failed. disc could not be read from or written to. my partner has an ipod too (we bought them at the same time- last wednesday)that is giving her the same message when she attempts to synch it. what can we do, and to be honest i'm a whisker away from taking it back to the shop cos its just been one thing after another and its only been a week!

Have you seen this?:
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After further investigation, an individual file was canceling the download que on to the iPod. Deleting the file fixed the problem.
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First off, just so everyone doesn't point me to it, I saw this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2466282?start=0&tstart=0
But my question has to do with Windows.
I had a Lenovo T60 laptop running Windows 7 with a 500GB HD. My iTunes library is nearly 460GB so I had it on an external drive. I recently took an older PC, dropped in 8GB of ram and a 1TB internal drive running Windows 7 64bit. I successfully moved the iTunes library to the new machine and ran it from the external HD. It isn't a beast of a machine by any means, but I figured since I have enough space on the internal drive, I'd move my iTunes library to it thinking it would help performance.
So I followed the instructions here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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I haven't completely solved this, but I've made some headway.
Two things. First is that I figured out why the TV Shows didn't transfer, or at least I think I did: there was no "TV Shows" folder on my C: drive. So, rather than create a new folder called 'TV Shows' I found a TV show that I only have one episode of, right clicked on it and selected 'Show in WIndows Explorer.' I dragged and dropped it from the folder location to iTunes. I figured this way, if it duped in the Library, I could erase it. At first it looked like nothing happened. Then a while later I checked it and lo and behold, it was on the C: drive and there was a "TV Shows" folder. But, I tried to select 'Consolidate Library' and still got the message above.
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I found the following information about that error message:
These messages occur if permissions are incorrect on your designated music folder or on a folder inside your designated music folder. Permissions are settings that determine who can read, write to, or execute a file or folder on your computer. Every file and folder on your hard disk has an associated set of permissions.
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Second my ipod worked fine until about a few hours ago, when i was adding new files now i get this error:
" Attempting to copy to the disk " ipod " failed. The disk could be read from or written to. "
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