Ipod randomly pauses then resumes (seems to skip like a cd player)

I brought my 30gig ipod about 2 months ago on only recently has this problem been happening. It seems to pause for about half a second then resumes automatically, simalar to what happened to the old cd player walkmans when you shook them. My friend recently had a similar problem with his ipod mini and they said it was his hard drive but his ipod would stop playing for about 20 secs and then resume or just stop playing completely. Please help, Josh

See if the following helps
For Mac computer
1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iPod Updater and click “Restore”

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