Can i have an ipod classic and ipod shuffle linked to one library

I recently tried to charge and sync my ipod shuffle and it kept crashing....it then told me to restore it. Which i did..however, i then get the message below.
I do not have a disc, and have no idea what the below means.
many thanks for your help!
F:\refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer or on a net work. check to make sure that the disc is properly
inserted or that you are connected to the internet or your network, then try it again.If it still cant be located the information might have been moved to
a different location.

To the question in your title, yes you can have as many iDevices as you wish, but you can only connect one to the computer at a time. The easiest way to manage them is probably to give each device it's own core playlist oof content although you can add easily add more than one playlist to each device as long as the sum total of the data fits within the capacity of the device.
I'm not sure about your error message. This sometimes comes up during installation activies when drives have been moved around. Alternatively Windows might be complaining because iTunes effectively removes the iPod from the list of drives during formatting. Can you get the restore to complete or does it do the same thing again?
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