IPod Shuffle=Can't read or write to-Can't Sync-Can't Update-or Restore-Can'

%*#.........."What the ???"..........#*% Tell ya wot.... I Aint Happy.... (òó) ( not impressed at all )
Whats goin on here ??? I've never had a problem with my Shuffle or Itunes, everythin was fine untill I updated to 'Itunes 7' and now its dead as a door nail. Upgrading to Itunes 7 all went fine, no glitches at all. Plugged my Ipod in, all is good as I can see it there. Itunes rebuilt my music library ( all is still good ) I rebuilt my playlists ( yep, all is still good ) I set it to autofill from my playlist ( cool, nearly there ) next I chose to Sync my Ipod, and it says "Updating iPod. Do not disconnect" so ok, thats alright, I'm sittin here waiting for it to sync, & waiting, .....& waiting, ...... still waiting...... eventually, up pops an error message sayin "The iPod cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to." So I press Ok and find that iTunes has frozen briefly, after a minute it comes good with another message, "The iPod cannot be updated. An unknown error occured {-50}."
Ok, to cut a long story short.... I have updated the iPod software version, and it says "Your iPod is up to date"
Now everytime it tries to sync it fails so I chose to hit the 'Restore' button. It seems to to be happening but that also ends up failing with same error message. I've tried everything,.. the 5 R's... I downloaded & ran the program 'iPod Restore Utility' (it failed also) same message... 'Cannot read or write to... ' Gettin frustrated now cause I've done everything I can think of at least 2 or 3 times including uninstalling & reinstalling iTunes and starting from scratch. (yes, 2 or 3 times) & yes, I can tell you, " I'M SICK OF IT !!! "
Windows cant even see it anymore ( XP pro sp2 ). When I'm in iTunes I can see my iPod is there, but its not seen in Windows. But when I eject/disconnect it from iTunes the 'iPod Drive Icon' briefly appears in My Computer for only a second or 2 then vanishes. That happens wether "enable for disk usage" is ticked on or off. I'll just say 1 other thing & that is, I havent bumped or dropped my shuffle or wrongly plugged or unplugged it in any way at all. I have allways treated it with the utmost respect and it 'used to be' in perfect condition.
So what do you all think ? Do you agree that itunes killed my lil Shuff ???
%*# D~~m You iTUNES #*% and %*# D~~m You APPLE #*% for takin my lil Shuff from me. It was a gift from a special someone, and my very 1st and only MP3 player I've ever had.
Well, there you go, now I've had my say can I ask just one thing ?
" Can anyone offer any other suggestions that I could try ? ..............and plz, dont say " GET OVER IT " lol

Here is the answer: go to http://support.apple.com In the search box at the top left type in the number 304996 and hit enter. This will bring you to a page with 4 solutions. Click on solution number 1 and follow the instructions. This should fix it.
bigdogdan

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