Dead hardrive?

Hi, I am the owner of a 3rd gen 30gb iPod.
Recently I was having trouble with my iPod updating within iTunes. It would get stuck on one song and not continue to the next. First I attempted removing that song temporarily to see if it was the song itself. After that the problem continued, so I decided to "Restore" the iPod using iPod updater. Upon doing so, the iPod would update but for only around 6gb of my 11 library. I then went into disk utility and attempted to repair the disk, but it found nothing. So I then zeroed out the drive and used "Restore" again. Yet again the iPod stops around the 6th GB.
If I keep iTunes running for a while like this I then get this error message "Attempting to copy to the disk "iPod" failed. The disk could not be read or written to."
I have owned the iPod since the weekend the 3rd generation was announced. I have not in anyway I know of done anything to the iPod that could be harmful. I understand that the warranty is completely gone. Is there anything I can do? Will apple repair this for a price, or would the price be close to a new iPod?
Thank you in advanced.
Alex M.

I got my first ipod the week that the 3rd generation came out too and i had the same problem about a year ago, and i didn't do anything either to it. The guy at the apple store said that the hard drive is "burnt out" on it. They do make hard drives that you can put in yourself but i don't know exactly where to find them and if u can get the full version of the ipod softwhere. heres a link of a hard drive that Toshiba makes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/toshiba80gb_1-8inhdd/
hope i helped and goodluck with it, tell us if it worked

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