Is it possible to get an ipod 80gb classic's hard disk replaced?

My ipod classsic 80gb is not able to sync more that about 1500 songs in total. Anything above that gives me an error(50).
Is there any way to get the hard disk replaced?

Yes. You can have Apple do an out of warranty exchange for a refurbished iPod of the same generation and capacity of you can send it to a third party service who can swap out the bad drive for you.
Google for "iPod hard drive replacement" and you should get a number of results to work with. If you consider yourself handy with small electronics, you can actually purchase a new hard drive from one of the many online retailers for iPod parts and change it out yourself using the step-by-step guides over at http://www.ifixit.com/.
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I'm having serious problems with my iPod classic. About a month or two ago, I had to take my iPod to a genius bar at my local Apple store, because whenever I plugged my iPod into my computer, iTunes would slow down drastically to the point where it was unusable, and it would randomly freeze when I attempted to sync music and movies to my iPod. One day I was listening to music on my iPod in the morning. I turned it off and tried playing music again around seven hours later to find that my iPod had deleted everything on it WITHOUT being plugged into a computer, and decided that it had its 80 gig hardrive full, even though it was claiming that there were no songs, movies, photos, podcasts, or audiobooks. The aforementioned visit to the genius bar resulted in me simply having to uninstall and reinstall iTunes. Following that, iTunes had no trouble syncing my iPod and the iPod no longer suffered from these symptoms.
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