Help! my computer will only transfer a few songs...

to my ipod nano before this message appears.
"attempting to copy to the disk "ipod nano" failed.
the disk could not be read from or written to".
any idea what's happening? it only responds that way to certain selections.

Hello,
So did you see my link about your error in my previous post?
In iTunes, if you go to "Preferences -> iPod", what setting are you on? If it is one of the "automatic" settings, then try (for now) changing that option to "manually manage music".
On this "manual" setting, the way to transfer music onto your iPod is to select the certain songs in the library that you want on your iPod, and drag-and-drop them into the name of your iPod in the left source area of iTunes.
I hope this helps,
-Kylene

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