Itunes said ipod is corrupt

I recently (last night) upgraded to itunes version 7.1.1.5. After I did that, I plugged the ipod into the cable to upload songs and Itunes is claiming the ipod is corrupt and that I needed to restore it to factory settings. I went ahead and did that - uploaded all my songs again to the ipod. I unplugged it from the pc and went to upload a couple other songs and now all I get is that the ipod is corrupt - I need to restore it again. Anyone know why it is doing this and what I need to do to try to fix it so I dont have to restore it everytime I want to upload songs? Can I go back to the previous version of Itunes?
thanks.
kim
Ipod 20GB with click wheel Windows XP

Hi KimZ!
You could try this, and see if it does anything:
Go to "My Computer".
Right-click on your iPod, and click on "Format".
Select the format type to be "FAT32". Then, click "OK" to start the formatting process.
After the process is complete, make sure to restore your iPod again in iTunes, to load the firmware onto your iPod again.
After you've done that, eject your iPod from your computer if needed, then disconnect it. Restart your computer.
Then, reconnect your iPod to your computer for a sync again, and see if the "corrupt" message appears again.
Also, you could try running Chkdsk on your iPod, and see if it comes up with any errors about your iPod.
For more information on chkdsk, see this MS document about it:
How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
-Kylene

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I would suggest that you do this:
1 - Connect your iPod to your computer.
2 - While it is connected, reset your iPod. To reset an iPod:
First, toggle your iPod's "Hold" switch back and forth a couple of times.
Then, press and hold the Menu and Select (center) buttons together for 5-10 seconds.
3 - After you've reset your iPod, it will display the Apple logo, and eventually return to its normal screen.
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ITunes to iPod Sync corrupts iPod Music Library - Data Usage Chart Incorrect

Issue 1: Syncing Music Library
Issue 2: Data Usage Sync Displaying Incorrect Data
Conflicting Device: iPod Touch (5th Gen- Model MD717LL/A- 32GB)
Conflicting Device OS: iOS 7.0.4 (11B554a)
Capacity of Device: 28.01 GB
Current (As of February 18, 2014 at 11:30 PM EST) Total Space Used on Device: 19.05 GB
Current (As of February 18, 2014 at 11:30 PM EST) Total Space Available on Device: 8.95 GB
Conflicting Device 2: iTunes for Windows Vista (iTunes 11.1.4.62)
Back Up Config: iCloud
Option(s) selected on iTunes (in iPod Menu):
-Sync with this iPod over Wi-Fi
-Sync Music
     -Entire Music Library
     -Include Music Videos
     -Include Voice Memos
-Sync Movies
-Sync TV Shows
Number of Songs in iTunes Library: 1245
Number of Songs in iPod Library: 1395
Note on Previous Data: This is due to errors with purchased songs from iTunes. I have a downloaded version of the purchased songs with added lyrics as well as a iTunes download for a fresh version of the song (has the cloud icon next to them).
Mutual Step(s) Leading to Issue(s):
- 1 - Open iTunes
Individual Step(s) Leading to Issue 1:
- 2 - Alter, Add, Change, Remove, or Edit any Music in my iTunes library
- 3 - Connect to iPod either via lightning to USB cable or Wi-Fi
- 4 - Click on the "iPod" button on the Navigation Bar
- 5 - Click "Sync" at the bottom of the screen
Individual Step(s) Leading to Issue 2:
Issue: Syncing Music Library
Issue 2: Data Usage Sync Displaying Incorrect Data
Conflicting Device: iPod Touch (5th Gen- Model MD717LL/A- 32GB)
Conflicting Device OS: iOS 7.0.4 (11B554a)
Conflicting Device 2: iTunes for Windows Vista (iTunes 11.1.4.62)
Back Up Config: iCloud
Option(s) selected on iTunes (in iPod Menu):
-Sync with this iPod over Wi-Fi
-Sync Music
     -Entire Music Library
     -Include Music Videos
     -Include Voice Memos
-Sync Movies
-Sync TV Shows
Number of Songs in iTunes Library: 1245
Number of Songs in iPod Library: 1395
Note on Previous Data: This is due to errors with purchased songs from iTunes. I have a downloaded version of the purchased songs with added lyrics as well as a iTunes download for a fresh version of the song (has the cloud icon next to them).
Mutual Step(s) Leading to Issue(s):
- 1 - Open iTunes
Individual Step(s) Leading to Issue 1:
- 2 - Alter, Add, Change, Remove, or Edit any Music in my iTunes library
- 3 - Connect to iPod either via lightning to USB cable or iCloud
- 4 - Click on the "iPod" button on the Navigation Bar
- 5 - Click "Sync" at the bottom of the screen
Individual Step(s) Leading to Issue 2:
- 2 - Connect to iPod either via lightning to USB cable or iCloud
- 3 - Click on the "iPod" button on the Navigation Bar
- 4 - Hover over data usage bar
Description of Issue 1:
-When following steps, sync completes by corrupting all music files on the iPod Touch and not syncing altered/changed/added/removed/edited music with iPod.
-All music is either not shown or greyed out/inaccessible.
-When tapping a seemingly accessible song after sync, song immediately skips to next seemingly playable song. This process repeats until all songs are skipped. After the song is skipped, the song is grayed out/inaccessible. A download circle eventually shows showing the process of downloading the music file again. The file is never downloaded and remains stuck at 0% downloaded.
-Music purchased from iTunes is shown as downloadable and will download properly from iTunes if clicked on
-No known cause
Description of Issue 2:
-When looking at the data usage bar for my iPod Touch the status shows approx. 512 Mbs of data over capacity of the iPod and all data shown is categorizes as "Other"
-No known cause
-Causes Sync to Fail
-No Other Symptoms Seen
Affected Functions with Issue 1:
-Music Playback on iPod Touch
-Playlist Creation on iPod Touch
-Successful Sync Process
Affected Functions with Issue 2:
-Proper and Valid Sync with iPod
Failed Attempted Fixes for Issue 1:
-Restart of iPod
-Restart of iTunes
-Restart of Computer
-Hard Reboot of iPod
-All Combinations of listings above
-Multiple Syncs
-Ejecting iPod-> Removing USB from Port-> Connecting USB to Port again
-Deselecting "Sync over Wi-Fi with this iPod" option-> Clicking "Apply"
-Trying all of the above with and without the Music app running (including in the background).
Failed Attempted Fixes for Issue 2:
-Restart of iPod
-Restart of iTunes
-Restart of Computer
-Hard Reboot of iPod
-All Combinations of listings above
-Multiple Syncs
-Ejecting iPod-> Removing USB from Port-> Connecting USB to Port again
-Deselecting "Sync over Wi-Fi with this iPod" option-> Clicking "Apply"
Successful Attempted Fixes for Issue 1:
- 1 - Open iTunes
- 2 - Connect to iPod either via lightning to USB cable or iCloud
- 3 - Click on the "iPod" button on the Navigation Bar
- 4 - Navigate to the "Music" Tab on the Navigation Bar
- 5 - Deselect "Sync Music"
- 6 - When pop-up comes up click "Remove"
- 7 - Click "Sync"
- 8 - Wait for Sync to Finish
- 9 - Reboot iPod
- 10 - Reselect "Sync Music"
- 11 - Click Sync
- 12 - Wait for Sync to Finish
Successful Attempted Fixes for Issue 2: N/A
Unattempted Known Fixes for Issue 1:
-iTunes Match (I do not want to pay extra for this service)
Unattempted Known Fixes for Issue 2:
N/A
Annoyances of Issue 1:
-Having to delete all songs and redownload all songs onto iPod, it's very time consuming and frustrating due to the fact this doesn't always work.
-Having every song I bought on iTunes show twice- one downloaded with lyrics and one not downloaded without lyrics.
Annoyances of Issue 2: Disrupts the iPod Sync process (does not let it complete or even start- no error messages occur though) and I am unable to see the proper state of my iPod.
After Effects for Issue 1: A copy of any song purchased off of the iTunes Store is
After Effects for Issue 2: N/A
Occurrence Rate of Issue 1: Every Sync
Occurrence Rate of Issue 2: Occasionally during sync or daily iPod status check.
Origin Date of Issue 1: January 1, 2014 was the first noticed occurrence of this.
Origin Date of Issue 2: January 1, 2014 was the first noticed occurrence of this.
Note: If there is anything else needed please tell me- I would like to find a better solution or have this turned in as a bug. Thank you for your help!

Were you ever able to solve this problem? If so,
how? If not, did you see the same slowness copying
the files in Windows Explorer from the NAS to the
iPod?
No I wasn't. To be honest I have essentially given up as even if I can fix it, disk space is cheaper than life is long!
Using the NAS in general is no problem. In fact, once iTunes got beyond the initial working out of what needed to be removed from and copied to the iPod, having all my MP3s on the NAS and copying direct to the iPod was no issue.
Following some sage (and frankly scary!) advice at ilounge (http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=163611), I've decided to keep two copies of my MP3s. The fact that my fiendish NAS plan has failed is hurting more than the not-all-that-traumatic reality of duplicating 140GB of files if truth be told!

ITUNES SAYS IPOD IS CORRUPT?!?!

well hello there. ill start from the beginning...
i own an ipod video....
when i plug my ipod into my computer, this window appears in the upper left hand corner that says "autoplay" with a flashlight that is searching and a progress bar at the bottom. i dont know what this does, or if it the result of anything. so then i proceed to wait for my ipod to be recognized by itunes.
as soon as my ipod is recognized a window pops up telling me my ipod is corrupt and that i will need to restore my ipod. it also tells me that i will lose everything off of my ipod upon restoration.
so i did exactly that. all my files were lost and the restore process worked perfectly. i thought i was in the clear until as soon as the restore finished and itunes recognized my ipod again. the same "corrupt" message popped up again. my ipod was rendered useless because i could not sync it with itunes and all my songs and movies were deleted.
...its now two weeks later....
i have tried restoring many times. i have reset my ipod many times. i have reinstalled itunes twice and i have restarted my computer many times. i have also gotten very annoyed.
so this is where you come in to save the day. i have no clue what to do. a possible reason is that my computer has a virus and has been acting wierd. i cant think of anything else to do.
anything to help...any piece of advice...would be greatly appreciated.
-italynlprkn
P.S. if this has been asked before, don't yell, just show me the way.

Well you think you got problems?
I own the second gen iPod before the clickweel even ccame out. Mine always says corrupt, all i did was run a virus scan through my iPod, there was a virus i accidentally dowloaded. try that, then take your iPod to where you got it from, or call apple. Emailing them stinks, all i get back is a form letter telling me something totally unrelated. My batterry meter is messed up and shuts dows when it reaxhes full power. So i learned one thing. I smacked my iPod real hard in the back and the the batterry came ack to lfe, weird huh?

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Some people have had success trying the fix mentioned here.
Error 1418.
"showing me yet another error message."
You must be more specific about which error message. There are so many.

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iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
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HT1848 OMG, I appear to have lost of my music other than 2 albums bought today and 2 others that seemed to be saved somewhere else. Ipod was Corrupted and restored by itunes, now it's all gone!!! Help...

I need help, I seem to have lost all of my music from my Ipod. I bought two albums today which are still there as well as one I added via CD last week these are the only ones that remain. I got a message come up saying the ipod was corrupted and needed to be restored by itunes, I followed the instructions and it did a re-sync, but now all my albums are gone, other than the ones I said already. I can't find them in itunes, niether my ones bought from itunes or the ones put on via CD... Help please I am about to throw the poxy thing out of the window and have a melt down!!!!

one last thing: I'm also getting this problem here too:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398?start=15&tstart=0

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+The computer also asks if I want to scan the E drive (the drive the iPod is connected to).+
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From the OP: "My old computer got a virus and when that happened all my music was lost. "
They don't have the music on their computer so they cannot transfer the iTunes folder, from the computer to their iPod and then to the new computer. And if they try to enable disk use on the iPod it will erase all the music that is on it. The method you cited is moving the files in a data format using the iPod as a flash drive. It doesn't work if they are in music format. That is why I suggested Yamipod.

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