Old 160GB iPod plays 3 songs and freezes

Hello, I have an old 160GB ipod and it will play 3 songs then the screen will freeze on the third song at 00:02 or 00:03. It will stay there until the song finishes and the iPod will not play anything else and the buttons are unresponsive until i restart it using the force quit function. I hooked it back up to my computer and checked the software and it is up to date, then I tried to re-sync it but was unable to preform that function. The disk is full (I have about 400K of free space) I was wondering: do I have to start from square one and reformat my iPod or is there another way to remedy this horrid inconvenience?

Like with any hard disk, I'd suggest that leaving around 10% of iPod Classic disk space free would be sensible.
My guess is that your iPod is just too gorged. 400k from 160Gb is aan absolutely tiny amount of free space, just one four-hundred-thousandth of the total capacity!!

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