ITunes will not add songs to ipod

Please Help!! My iTunes recognizes my iPod and tries to update it, but an error message appears that reads "---ipod cannot be updated,the disk could not be read from or written to." It also deleted all the songs from my ipod. I don't know what to do. I have the iPod video and everything worked fine the last time I plugged it in the computer.

hiya!
here's a good place to start with that error message:
"Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod or "Firmware update failure" error when updating or restoring iPod
love, b

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