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Soon as I plug my gen 2 iPod into my windows machine it goes straight to "Ok to disconnect".
This hasn't always been the case, as it's only started doing it today.
I was putting some new tracks onto it and it didn't get all the way though before it ejected by itself.
I have installed the latest iTunes, but I can't use the latest updater as it ejects before the updater gets its chance to do it's thing.
Windows doesn't see it as a hard drive either.
The tracks I was transferring to the iPod don’t appear in the artists on the iPod, it plays all the existing tracks fine.
Please help.
Touch wheel iPod gen 2 Windows XP

I've had a chance to test on a Mac at work, and had a simular issue there, I'm just going to mark it as solved as i've come to believe that it's possibly an issue with my firewire cable as it's as old as the iPod and has travelled around with me alot of the time.
Thanks Bill for your help, but I had restarted it and also had run the iPod’s inbuilt diagnostics and it passed all the tests I ran on the HDD, firewire port and the 1-5 test.
Conclusion is the cable.

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