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It's weird. The other day I was syncing my iTouch and iPod, when suddenly my computer. Normally it never crashes okay? I thought maybe it was because I was IMing, playing music on iTunes, and syncing, so it was overloaded. When it restarted my iTouch was perfectly okay, while my iPod was apparently "Corrupted". I pressed restore and waited for what, 8 hours? I restored at least 10 times before, and it always takes only like 4 minutes! I took out the cord and tried listening to a few songs, everyone of them in tact. Later I synced my iPod to my brother's Windows Vista, and his iTunes showed my iPod perfectly fine. I then restored my iPod on my brother's computer... taking only 2 minutes. Then I tried reinstalling my iTunes over my computer, wondering if it has a defectioncy... When I started iTunes, I hadn't plugged in my iPod yet, and yet, it showed a white corrupted iPod on my sidebar... I plugged in my iPod then, and nothing changed... Anyone have a solution to this problem? I need my computer to read my iPod properly because it's what I use to back up my songs so whenever I get a new comp I can just tranfer my songs using my iPod (since my iTouch can't do this) My iPod's a 30gb 5th Gen and my iTouch's a 16gb 1st Gen.

Just an update, after I posted this I put my husbands shuffle on the charger to see what it would do. Before putting it on the charger I turned it on and no light came on! It seems something is disabling the shuffles. Could it be a virus? I have virus software on my computer and it isn't detecting anything. Also, my husbands shuffle didn't work on the netbook even when the indicator light was coming on.

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