HELP. iPod space = full, even though it's not.

Hey. Yesterday my iPod Nano 4 GB (not really, it's only 3,62 GB) turned weird, so I clicked on Reset and I thought that it would be all normal again. ..No. First of all, 1/2 of my music disappeared (on my iPod) so I added all the missing music again. Now it says that 1,6 GB = music, and 2,1 GB = other stuff. I've only got the three basic games, and i've got no podcasts/movies or anything. I don't know what's the problem because I can't seem to find an answer here in the forums. It also says that I haven't got enough space. I'm apparently missing 0,06 GB..
The second problem is that I added some new music but somehow, it won't show up in my iPod, even though it shows up in iTunes. This is really irritating. :/
I got my iPod Nano on December 24th '08 (maybe '07, i'm not sure), in case anybody wonders.
Thanks in advance.

I had a similar issue with a 180 or 160 GB (or whatever the largest memory config was, I got rid of it so I forget) iPod. Turns out the drive went bad and as soon as it reached the 1/2 way point it would say "Memory Full" or give me some other error and crash. Worked for months after that as long as I was careful to not sync to fill more than 1/2 the drive.
You may still have all your music on there but it may be curropted and unreadable so it's taking up space but the software can't address it or delete/sync to it, etc.
Try a complete system reset first. If that fails you may have a failing unit.

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