Ipod nano 4th generation takes forever to sync

Question

I have Windows Vista, Latest iTunes, and thhe 4th Gen. iPod Nano.
In addition to this problem i have only one USB port in the back of  my computer that works with my iPod. If i plug it in in any other port, Windows gives me a message that it has malfunctioned, etc..I don't know if that has any relevance to the problem im about to tell you. The following constantly recurs: I plug my ipod in to my computer and open iTunes. iTunes sees my iPod, so far everything is fine. I then proceed to automatically sync music, movies, and TV Shows to my iPod. It takes approximately 5 minutes to sync all my music(445 songs - 1.65 GB) and then by the movies it just continously sncs without end. The progress bar starts and remains at 1/4 done. In the most recent attempt to fix this, I have Restored and Reset my iPod Nano, but I was still waiting about 30 minutes for one movie to sync. And after i realized that it wasn't going to happen, i tried to stop the syncing by clicking the 'X' by the Sync progress bar, but it did nothing. So i instead clicked on the eject next to the picture of my ipod, and the result: Complete crash- iTunes stopped responding and in order to close it i had to unplug my iPod and close iTunes with Task Manager. The only thing i can do that works to sync is to enable Manually manage music and videos and add all music, movies and TV shows manually. But i really need to be able to automatically sync because manually managing everything is a pain. Please help!

Answer 1

I think there is someting wrong with your USB.  It's USB 2.0, correct, not a really old computer with USB 1.1?
It takes approximately 5 minutes to sync all my music(445 songs - 1.65 GB)
It's not syncing all of your songs every time, only changes since the last sync, so 5 minutes is probably too long of a time too.  The movies take a much longer time, because each one is quite large, compared to a song.
Here's a test you can do.  You can use a USB external drive, a USB flash drive, or even the iPod with disk mode enabled.  Find one of those movie files, something that is at least 100mb.  Use Windows to manually copy that one file from your computer's internal drive to something on the same USB port that the iPod uses to connect.  If you have a USB flash drive, that would be ideal.  Time how long it takes.
If it takes a really long time time to complete, that's the same problem iTunes is encountering.  It would be a more general problem that goes beyond iTunes and iPods.