Ipod shuffle appears briefly on windows explorer

my ipod shuffle appears briefly on windows explorer as E: drive, but only when i have just plugged it in. then it disappears again! Help!!!

If the iPod isn't in disk mode, it may disappear from Windows Explorer as soon as the synchronization process is complete.
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