Computer will recognize iPOD one minute but not the next!

I have the 60GB iPOD and have tried everything to get my computer to recognize it. I have a laptop running on Windows XP. It will recognize the iPod in the Itunes and on the computer for only minutes at a time, but then clicks off and loses the connection to my computer and won't come back until I restart my computer. Anyone have any useful information for this headache?!

Hi I have had similar problems with the ipod but think I know the problem without being techincal.
My Ipod sometimes would connect and sometimes not. I could not find a pattern besides a random one. However I looked at "my Computer" view where I could see the hardisks. When the ipod connected with a "removable disk" it would not work with Ipod and you could not get access to it.
Then I tiried and tried (always on the usb on the back of the computer) changing between the two connections.
When the computer then recognized it as the name I have given the ipod "JFR IPOD" it would then work with I tunes without any problems.
However .... this is the trick for me... when using the USB on my laptop and my wifes it works without any problems 20 out of 20 times....... Where I can see the Ipod in "my computer" as a disk named as my ipod and NOT just as removable disk.
This concludes for me that the USB on my computer - which is USB2 on a 3 year computer does not work as it should. I again assume that this is due to the fact that the IPOD is not powered by a remote source while being connected. This due to the fact that Maxtor USB2 transporable harddrives works without any problems whatsoever.
I now need to check if an external USB2 HUB with external powersupply will work on my computer. If that is not the case I need to try a Firewire connection and have it installed as a card.
All this was done by Trial and error but know I know that (apparently) is not due to a misfunctioning ipod.
Hope this helps for some of you. Bring the IPOD to a fairly new computer and connect is. If it then connects as a ipod with the name you have given it it will work with Itimes as well.
Best Regards,
John Frandsen.

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