What is Invaild Drive: F for iTunes upgrade mean?

Upgrading the new iTunes version 7.2 has been challenging. Everything run find until the very end when it says Invalid Drive: F:/. How do i upgrade the iTunes latest version if this mysterious Invalid F drive wont let me complete the upgrade process?
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i know i am replying to my own post, but this is for all of you who are having the same problem. After a week of trying to figure stuff out, 3 hours worth of time with Apple's technical support, i fixewd the problem. First my iPod, when plugged into the USB port, my computer kept saying that nothing was there, when i tried to upgrade my iTunes to 7.5 version, it wouldnt let me, my computer kept reading Invalid Drive: F:/, i had to use someone elses computer to make a copy of the 7.5 version on to a disk, then i was able to uploaded and run it to my computer. The second part of this trick, was having to get iTunes and my own computer to recognize that my iPod was in the USB connection, finally once i upgraded to 7.5, as soon as i plugged in my iPod into the computer, iTunes recognized it, i quickly went straight to Restore Ipod, turns out that my iPod had a "BUG" thats why the invalid F drive was showing up, thats why i could not upgrade to 7.5, and how a bug got into my ipod sense everything i have ever downloaded and uploaded has been off of Apple.s website, they assure that their songs are infected free, but i beg to differ since it took 4 years for my iPod (which was a week ago) to actually have a serious problem.

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