ITunes could not copy my music

iTunes could not copy my music to my iPhone 4.
i sync my iPhone to iTunes and give me an error.
"iTunes could not copy "xxxxx' to te iPhone'xxxx' because a timeout occurred.''
i can't sync my music to my iPhone, please can help me anyone?

Is the new PC running XP as well, Chalotte?
If so, I might start with the following document (your error message is a possible symptom of the issue too):
iTunes displays -50 error message when syncing iPod on Windows XP

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