Ipod tells me to restore, won't work...

My ipod told me that it needed to connect to itunes to restore, and when i plugged it in, it said that it was in recovery mode and that it needed to restore. I restored it many times, and every time it looked like it worked; itunes said that it was restored, and that it would appear in itunes again when i finished restarting. each time, it would appear in itunes, but it said, again, that it needed to restore. I then tried connecting it to every USB port on my computer, but it came to the same result. I also tried changing the drive letter, but again, it did not work.

I just got my iPod to start syncing after reading these two links:
On restoring iPod:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304503
"Change the Drive Letter"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499#changedrive
I found out that another mapped network drive had been mapped to the same drive letter as my iPod is usually mounted to when attached. I re-mapped the network drive to another letter so my iPod's normal drive was free for the Ipod.
So perhaps having a thumb drive or external drive attached can cause your iPod to try to mount to a drive that's occupied, and causes problems...

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