Trying to restore the iPod

a while a go, i had to send my iPod (engraved) into service because it started to react slowly and stuff (i chose not to get the engraved one back), a while afterwards i got a "new" iPod back (i have the 20GB version without a colordisplay "clickwheel")
the one i got back started to work fine, but just recently it acted all weird, causing iTunes to freeze, and the update the songs, and then it started to "disconnect from widows". That means that when i plug it in via firewire, windows and iTunes recognize it, but it "disconnects" itself before any songs are transfered/updated/deleted..
and when i try to restore the iPod from the iPod updater, i get a message saying "Firmwareupdate failed, Disk error" (directly translated from norwegian)
i've tried to reset the ipod and such but to no avail.
i've also tried to do any of the aforementioned steps to make it work, but it just dont wanna work anymore..
Im getting a bit tired of the iPod 4th generation clickwheel always experience problems, so i think im going to call Apple Europe/ Apple norway, or something like that and tell them that i want a brand new 5th generation iPod back since the price hasn't been raised at all. All i demand is a functioning iPod and since the clickwheel generation seems to have a lot of bugs and such, i think its fair and square that i get a brand new iPod back. (note that the iPod hasn't been "abused" physically)
well, thats my rant for today.
anybody know how i can fix this?

hiya!
and when i try to restore the iPod from the iPod updater, i get a message saying "Firmwareupdate failed, Disk error" (directly translated from norwegian)
just checking. have you worked through the possibilities from this document yet?
"Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod or "Firmware update failure" error when updating or restoring iPod
love, b

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