"disk could not be read"? WHAT?

Anyone heard of this...during the process of updating my ipod on itunes (loading more music on my ipod) the update stops and this message comes up..."Attempting to copy to the disk "XXXX's IPOD" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to." ANY ideas what this means and what i can do.
I restored my ipod already and the same thing happens...now i only have 44 songs on my ipod...nightmare...
thanks,
steve

Steven,
Is this a relatively new problem? The reason I ask is I encountered a very similar problem with my ipod just after updating to itunes 5.0 After a reformat/restore, the ipod updating in itunes would lock up at 1 gb of songs downloaded every time, then the ipod would crash and the disk format would not be recognized by my computer until I restored the ipod. I'd tried all the usual suggestions, as well as deleting the ipod driver (as suggested by someone else on the forums) Nothing seemed to work so I went to the genius bar at the ipod store. The guy there told me it was a corrupted hard drive and gave me a new ipod. So far it sounds like your problem is similar to mine

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