ITunes Keeps on saying"Itunes has detected an IPOD in recovery mode."

I keep on getting the msg"Itunes has detected an IPOD in recovery mode.U must restore that IPOD b4 it can b used with ITunes." Ive restored the ipod. Screen goes blank, comes back on and same msg appears on itunes again. Also resetted the ipod, but still get the same message ova & ova again. Help!!!!

Try changing the iPod's drive letter in Windows:
Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
then click Disk Management and change the iPod drive letter to something else that's not being used by another device (preferably above the letter 'G').
Note that this problem is not Vista-related and can also occur on XP.
Hope that helped.

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