I installed new windows 8, ever since then all of my I-pods, which I have 5 different ones from various  years are stating "attempting to copy to the disk, then name of the I-pod failed. The disk could not be read from or written to".

All of my I-pods are stating " attempting to copy to the disk failed. the disk could not be read from or written to. I have 5 different I-pods of various years and all of them are saying  that. I also reset a few and  still the same problem.

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