The iPod's never ending cycle of death

Every time I try to transfer my songs from iTunes to my iPod, the process just freezes at around 350 songs transferred. I eject the iPod but it remains frozen at the "Do Not Disconnect" screen. I restart the iPod and find out that all my songs are gone. However, the disk space I've used is equivalent to the amount of data I transferred. So I restore the iPod with iPod updater to remove all those corrupted songs that are not showing up. I start with 0 songs again and try my iTunes transfer again. And, of course, the same thing happens. I have absolutely no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello all,
I am so sorry to hear the number of problems caused with the XP users after the installation of the latest iPod updater. I could be wrong, but I am a believer that it is not the software that kills your iPod, rather, it is just during the installation where something wrong happened and screwed either the iPod or the PC. iPod is just a hard disk, unless it is damaged, problems can be resolved by reformatting. iPod updater is a software, it needs to be installed on this hard disk to facilitate the communication between the user and the PC. During the installation process, the header of the hard disk might get stuck at a point (the iPod will show a sad iPod icon or folder icon with an exclamation mark - as it is no longer being able to communicate with the PC) and the process would only manage to get half way through. And regarding the problem where iPod does not manage to be mounted or recognized, it's simliar to a problem of some corrupted OS files.
To make the long story short, how can we fix this then? We can do a Reset or have a full battery charge and hope the iPod can complete the installation process. If fails, I will ask you a question - how are you going to deal with the hardware problem of the header of the hard disk got stuck? Hitting the back of the iPod with your Palm? (I do not know? please refer the following post)
Mitch 751, "Newest update/iTunes kills iPod?!?" #7, 12:37am Oct 29, 2005 CDT
The key point now is how can we do the reformating and finish the installation process of iPod updater.
I always suggest user to plug their PC formatted iPod with a Mac or vice versa, as when you plug it with the computer, it will be treated as an external Hard Disk and allow you to do the Restore, as the format between PC and Mac is totally diffenent, it may force the stuck hard disk header to move. I did manage to fix many iPods this way, why dont you have a try yourself if you can find a Mac computer.

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I am experiencing the identical problem. I am hoping that if I drain the battery until it is completely dead it may force a "hard" reset which when charged again, it may start working properly.
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HT1212 Restoring on a new computer that the ipod has never been synced to is not working. Old computer is broke and trying to sync to the new one is not working. Help!

Passcode has been disabled and the computer it was synced to is no longer working. We have tried to sync to the new computer and it is not possible. Exactly what are the steps to do this. All our apple products are on our account, therefore, apple support should be able to see that there is nothing "suspect" going on. It is driving me insane not being able to reset/resync, whatever it's called when your locked out.

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Ipod restore never ends!?!

I installed the latest updater, launched it, plugged in the ipod and hit restore. Now its been about 20 hours and ipod is still restoring. What do I do?
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It shouldn’t take any longer than a few minutes.
First of all, try clicking on the little x in the top corner, which might take you to the next stage in the process. Sometimes it gets stuck.
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The restore that never ends....Tecra A4

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http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/t5/Windows-Vista-XP-Win7-RC/HDD-Fact-Image-Restore-Hangs-at-end-2nd-...
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* Have formatted entire volume from P/E, attempting to force out any disk issues.
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My only other suggestion is to check the memory on this unit. Toshiba's are picky about getting good memory. So my guess is this unit might have been upgraded. Cehck the specs to see how much it comes with and see if there is more in it then that. Remember some memory maybe on the bottom and some may be under the keyboard.
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When does the iPod nano replacement end?

Hi,
i just would like to know how long this program is available or is it even everlasting? As a friend of mine has my ipod and he is travelling, so i will get it back almost in June.
greets

Only Apple knows and they have not announced any specific date. Your safest bet will be to take care of it as soon as possible because the program could end at any time.
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HT201272 about a year ago, I purchased music from iTunes. The title was Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends. Ladies and Gentleman...Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I have just bought a new computer with Win 8. Will not move from i Phone.

As the heading states...I cant transfer this album purchase from my phone to my computer. Only one song gets moved.
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When trying to load onto my sons ipod shuffle i keep getting the message 'the ipod update server could not be contacted'. The ipod has never been used and has been sitting in a drawer. It seem to charge but I cannot load any music for him.

Should say, I have tried altering the LAN setting to 'automatically detect settings', updating itunes etc but nothing has worked. I have a very unhappy 6 year old!

You should not get that message if you are simply trying to load the shuffle with songs from your iTunes library. If iTunes is trying to Update or Restore the shuffle, and you get that message, try the suggestions in this article
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Download of 4.3 - thrown into never-ending cycle of recovery

Stupid Apple! I downloaded the newest version on my iPhone 4 - AND, now it is continuously in recovery.....
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Ah I see, so an update error.
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The questions, they never end

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HT1430 my daughter's ipod has been disabled after too many wrong password attempts. The ipod was not synced to a computer. How can we get it started?

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Never-ending restart

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Younger brother has forgotten his passcode..ipod says i must connect to itunes but this ipod has never been connected before..help!

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I did a search for this topic and I found that the few discussions that existed did not get the airing they deserved before they were archived.
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Does anyone know if Apple is at least considering rectifying this flaw?

The iPod has never supported gapless playback.
You can suggest Apple add this feature here;
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