Pls help. 2nd post - Ipod will only synch 1/4 of the songs

Hi:
Have a 5th gen ipod. recently backed up my dell computer and wiped it clean and reinstalled the os. moved itunes back over. all music and videos are there on the computer itunes. Ipod will not synch it all. tried checking alll the boxes, etc. only synchs 1/4 of the music and none of the videos. pls help.

Yeah, same thing happened with mine, but only just recently....I used to be able to put 1000+ songs on mine, and now (suddenly) just 500.
Makes me think all these iTunes "updates' are taking up room that I don't want it to be taking...

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Apple does not support transferring files from the device to the computer if they are third party. It is great that you were able to transfer the ones you did. There is a way to do it but it sounds like you already did it because if not half of them would not come over. The files can probably not be found because they are third party and the files are not compatible with the transfer process.

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Error 1611: This error may indicate a hardware issue with your device. Follow the steps in this article. Alsoattempt to restore while connected with a known-good 30-pin Dock Connector cable, computer, and network to isolate this issue to the device. The MAC address being missing or the IMEI being the default value (00 499901 064000 0) can also confirm a hardware issue. Out-of-date or incorrectly configured proxy or security software, such as FoxyProxy, can cause error 1611. To troubleshoot third-party security software, follow these steps.
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A bit of a back story:
So the problem started when my ipod classic 160gb started going funny on me, jumping songs and skipping others when i used it. so i decided to restore it. however, since then whenever i try and sync songs back into it, it will freeze- every time on a different song- and say that it could not sync the songs, giving a variety of different issues and errors:
"Itunes could not sync (name of song) to the ipod (ipod name) because the file cannot be read or written". alternatively, "...because an unknown error has occured (-50)".
"windows was unable to save all the dad for the file F:, the data has been lost. this error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. please try to save this file elsewhere"
and "The specified I/O operation on \Device\harddisk1\DR9\ was not completed before the time out period expired.",
"The Ipod (name of ipod) could not be synced. a duplicate filename was specified" and a few other varieties of these messages
I tried resetting the ipod,using different usb ports and plugs, restoring the ipod several times and reinstalling itunes but non helped..
I tried this solution:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1539 and the error-checking tool for windows
but also of no help
I then tried to add songs manually in chunks of about 100 and it worked until about 750 songs ish (out of 3,000), and then whatever song you try to add doesnt work....
I also tried to add photos and movies but it looks like its all a matter of size, as in if any more then the music equvelent of movies or videos will be uploaded it wont work but any less it would
any ideas?

I also used the diagnostic mode to check the hard disc situations, as explained here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2623917&tstart=0
and got the folllowing results:
retracts:1
reallocs: 5704
pending sectors: 576
powerOn hours: 55
Start/Stops: 3976
temp current: 25C
Temp Min: 13C
Temp Max: 53C
so i think that means the hard drive is stuffed, which may explain the issue
is there anything i can still do?

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thanks.

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We can either try to figure it out ... or we could suggest uyou just reset everything. The latter is often easier.
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Pls help. 2nd post - Ipod will only synch 1/4 of the songs

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