'Data' appears as IPOD name in IPOD Updater

This IPOD Nano is doing my head in.
I bought a Nano back last year and everything worked fine. Then one day 'Data' appeared as the IPOD name in ITunes when I plugged my IPOD in. It looked like it was updating my ipod, but nothing was upload to it. When I opne Explorer, my IPOD did not appear as Removable Storage.
I sent it back to Apple and then sent me out a new one. It worked fine for about two days. Now the same thing is happening again.
I tried everything, reset, restarting, reinstalling itunes, software updater. It says 'Data' when I load the Software Updated
Name: Data
Capacity: 131.8 GB
Its only a 2GB nano, so its looks like it think my hard drive is the nano
At this stage I am thinking of binning it and getting a normal mp3 player
any ideas
Dell Windows XP Pro

Name: Data
Capacity: 131.8 GB
Its only a 2GB nano, so its looks like it think my hard drive is the nano
That's exactly what's going on.
Don't despair... this is a very simple problem to resolve.
You need to go into Disk Management in Windows (Computer Management > Disk Management) and assign a new drive letter to your iPod. You currently have a conflict where your iPod is trying to use the same drive letter as another drive on your system.
You need to assign a unique drive letter to each drive, including the iPod.

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