New Nano (Already broke?)

Hi,
I just bought a Nano and already am having problems. I am getting the following messages.
1) Firmware update failure. Disk write error.
2) I-Pod_control\music is corrupt and unreadable. use chkdsk utility (Or someting like that)
I'm cluelss so if anyone can give me a hand, that would be great.
The thing will not even turn on now.
I am also using a new laptop computer so maybe there is some settings or something I need to change?
Thanks

First, eject your iPod and reboot your computer.
Have a read of the following
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301343
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300836
Follow the instructions above

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