"Disc could not be read or written to"

Ok my iPod Mini has been all messed up. It started earlier when I updated it, but nothing I deleted or added was changed. It would update on iTunes but nothing would happen. I restored it and it's at that now. Now, whenever I try to connect it, i get a "Disc could not be read or written to" or else it just updates in two seconds without adding my library. My library has 579 songs in it and NONE of them are being added.
I already reinstalled the iPod software and iTunes, deleted any new songs, restored my iPod. I'm going insane from this. I can't even use it now because it's empty. Please help someone.
If it helps, iTunes is saying that I'm using over 39 Gig of memory when I'm only using about 2.5 gig.

See this troubleshooting article.
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