HELP PLEASE...  error message for restore & now i can't update my ipod

hi... please help. i plugged my ipod into the computer for an update and i got a message that i need to resore my ipod, so i did that and it just kept giving me that message. now my ipod is empty and i can't do anything. i tried another ipod that i have and updated all the software and versions for itunes and that didn't work either. i did get the ac plug message on one of the ipods and plugged it into my car and that worked, but it still won't update on the computer.. it just keeps telling me to restore! i'm freaking out... anyone who has solved this one, please lmk what you did. thanks!

That seems to cause all sorts of fun that is annoying. Have you ever seen you Ipod with 150GB of capacity? That is another symptom.
oh indeed ... we occasionally get reports of Terabyte sized ipods from folks with this one.
another rare symptom (that isn't talked about much in the documentation) is "identity swaps" with other ipods. that's a double drive-letter confusion. an ipod_control folder from one ipod makes its way onto a network drive (as a result of one drive letter confusion). when another ipod is plugged in, a second drive letter confusion means that Windows sees the misplaced ipod_control folder, and itunes reports it's looking at a different ipod from the one that has actually been plugged in ...

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