HELP! iTunes error and wipes out iPod

My husband just bought an iPod nano and when he is trying to move songs from iTunes an error comes up and deletes the songs already on the iPod. The error comes up at various times too. At first we thought it was a song, but I have no idea now. The error says 'Attempting to copy to the disk failed. An unknown error occured (-124)'. Then another one pops up...'iTunes; iTunes.exe-Corrupt file. The file or directory \iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesPrefs is corrupt and unreadable. Please run Chkdsk utility. I have the same nano and mine works just fine. He is getting frustrated because of this. I cannot find where the Chkdsk utility is located either. Please help!
Thanks
Angie

I don't
think I should have to do anything will iTunes since
it works fine with my iPod.
I agree that it's unlikely to be iTunes itself because yours is working fine. But software is a complicated thing and I've come to the conclusion that you should reinstall iTunes after UNINSTALLing it first. It won't take long and it may well cure the headache.
You're probably thinking that you'll lose everything in iTunes but you shouldn't. And this is easy to be certain of by backing up the iTunes database like so...
1) In the file menu, click 'Export Library...' This backs up the internal database to a single file. Save the resulting file somewhere such as your desktop.
2) If the song info is gone after reinstalling iTunes, simply select 'Import' from the file menu and point it to the file you saved.
None of this affects your actual song files which remain completely unchanged by the whole process.
Finally, it is actually conceivable that your husband's ipod is faulty.

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