Incorrect drive space on 40 GB click wheel

I have an out of warranty 40 Gb clickwheel (does that make it a 4th generation? - purchased 10/04) that froze on me last week. I had to do a reset/then a restore, but when I did that, the drive info now only shows the drive to have 16 gigs of capacity, no word of the missing 23 odd gigs! I have run the updater, run disk repair, right now I'm running a surface scan with Techtools, tried the restore 9 or 10 times or more, tried switching the firewire cable connection ( I only have one iPod firewire cable, but it works fine on my other duplicate 40 Gb iPod, so I don't think it's the cable). Anyone have a similar experience? Seems like the drive directory took a hit and now it doesn't recognize a portion of the drive. I'm not into fixing the thing for more than $75 to $100, as I'd prefer to just get a 5th gen iPod.

Sounds like aliens stole your 40 GB drive and replaced it with a 20 GB drive. I can't imagine why a 40 GB drive could be formatted and return as a 16 GB drive. My only suggestion is to go here to see how to put your iPod into diagnostic mode so you can run the iPod's own hard drive diagnostics and see what it says.

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