Solution to "Unknown Error 1418"

I had the unknown error 1418, but I finally found a solution (with the help of this discussions). I hope this to be useful for you.
I am going to describe what happened since I had the first iPod's problem until I solved "Unknown Error 1418":
1. My iPOD was connected to my computer and the songs were being written in my iPOD, until the battery was too low and the iPOD turn off and disconnected.
2. I charged the battery and then I connected my iPOD to my computer again. iPOD was recognized by Windows XP and by iTUNES, but it doesn't start the songs transference. So, after a long waiting (15' aproximately), I disconnected the iPOD, although the message at the iPOD was "Please, do not desconect".
3. I reconnected the iPOD to the computer and, after waiting, appeared a message approximately like this: "iTUNES cannot read the iPOD. Please restore your iPOD". For me this message appeared in spanish, so this is just my approximate translation.
4. I restored my iPOD with the latest version of iTUNES, clicking in the restore button at the Summary tab of the iPOD options of iTUNES. The informacion in that window was:
Name: IPOD (It's real name was "iPOD de Samuel García Vargas")
Capacity: n/d (It's real capacity is 15 GB)
Software Version: 2.3
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxx (It's correct serial number)
Format: Windows
But after restoring, a new message appeared: "You cannot restore your iPOD. Unknown error (1418)". Here I have written an approximate translation to english from the spanish original message.
5. After trying the "five RS steps" I had no results.
6. So that's the reason why I came to the discussions of iPod and Jeff Bryan helped me by posting this discussion topic: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=640556&tstart=0
7. Then I didn't follow exactly what the topic said because the dialogue box telling that "a new version of firmware (ver. 1.2) was available" didn't appear. But it gave me an idea.
8. So I restarted the computer and connected the iPod. I had the same problems that I have described before (3 and 4) but while iTunes was trying to restore my iPod (without success), I disconnected the iPod, reset it (see the first step at "the five Rs steps") and reconnected to the PC... and iTunes continued the restoring (even while there was no iPod connected) and finally restored my iPod!!
A happy ending.
HP compaq nx9010   Windows XP  

I'm having this issue but I've checked my Bios and Intel C-State Tech is already enabled.

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    Quote “This has been discussed numerous times as a 'fix'. It does work, at least for a while. In fact I remember using the same basic trick to revive Seagate and Quantam drives back in the mid to late 1980's. Why these tiny hard drives go bad I don't know - could be the actuator gets stuck in place or misaligned. Could be the platter gets stuck or the motor gets stuck. 'Stiction' was a problem for drives back in the 80's. Unfortunately the fix can cause damage to the platter so we temporarily fix one problem by creating another. But I know of two instances where a little slap onto the table revived the iPods and they are still worked a year or more later.”UnQuote

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