My ipod cant be synced! help!

I have a 2ed gen ipod shuffle that i just got.
When i try to put songs from itunes onto it i get this message...
"The ipod "its name here" cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to."
Is my computer just to out dated? Its about 4 years old, laptop with windows xp.
any thing i can do if it is?
thanks for any help!!

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