Ipod recognized in Windows Explore for about 10 secs & then disappears

Awhile ago my computer was out to get serviced so b4 it left, I decided to put back up my song files onto my ipod since i was using way less than half the space on there. As soon as i did this, my ipod started freezing and the the sad face ipod appear. Randomly it would start up asking what language I wanted 2 use and all the songs would be "deleted" I restarted it and magically the songs would be back on there.
So when i got my computer back I tried to delete the files I had saved on there but in the middle of the process it said one of the files was in use and wouldnt let me delete it. Magically my ipod started working again, although it freezes sometimes but i would reset it, files disappeared, reset again and they would be back.
Recently the ipod sad face showed up again & even though i would try to reset it, it wouldnt go away. I just left it alone 4 a week and then charged it but nothing happened. Another week later i was chargin it again and when i came back in the room, the menu was up. The ipod worked 4 about a week (with the sad face ipod showing up any time u tried to skip a song). After awhile the reset thing didnt work. So I tried to restore it. I am able to put it into disk mode & when i connect to my computer everything appears to be going well. it shows up in my computer for a couple of secs and then it's dropped and the ipod updater says that the ipod cant mount. Does anybody know how 2 correct this.

I had a problem like that and Ithink it solved itself by checking an option in I-tunes.
I can't find exactly what option (I don't use I tunes, because it doesn't do what I want), but it was an option like 'Show Ipod as virtual drive' or something like that.
Choosing that option showed my Ipod, but I'm not sure it was that, because I had so many problems installing it.
Hope this helps a little.

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Ipod recognized in Windows Explore for about 10 secs & then disappears

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