Reset iPod Video but shows 3+ gb still on...what gives...

Does anyone know this answer? It seems there is a ghost in my new iPod video... Somehow I am using up 3.+ gigs of something somewhere and I don't know how to delete it. I've looked on my hard drive but I'm afraid to delete any music files. Does computer wizard/geek know what I should do? I would so appreciate it!
Thank you so much,
Sue

For many debated and complicated reasons, because a computer OS (including the iPod OS) truncates and interprets one megabyte to equal 1,000 bytes (rather than 1024) for the sake of simplicity, when empty, your 30gb iPod HDD should have roughly 28.75 gigs avalable. I'd hazard a guess that the iPod OS takes up roughly .25 gigs, leaving you 28.5 gb remaining for use.
How much stuff do you still have on your iPod? If you check the 'about' screen, what does it say?
Also, looking at your iPod contents in iTunes could shed som light on this situation, as well as simply scrolling through the iPod and checking for duplicate items by album, artist, song, etc.
If you delete everything from the iPod and still have < 28 gigs, try a restore.

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