Ipod classic causes lock on PC after about 30 gigs of media

Greetings!
I've owned my ipod classic for about a year and a half and my problem is this:
I'm able to sync music and listen as well, but after about 30 or so gigs of space gets occupied, about 5,000 songs, itunes freezes and then I have to pull the ipod out and of course none of the music that I had on there is on it anymore, and I have to restore it, but I still can't get more then 30 gigs of media on there. I've restored it several times to no avail.
Any help or advice on this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

I have been having the same problem with my 160 gig iPod Classic. I have restored several times and the last 3 times the problem occurs around 32 gig of files. I don't know what to do. I know that it is not a specific mp3 that is causing the issue because I have the problem while loading different music. From what I have read elsewhere it sounds like it might be an error on the iPod's hard drive.

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