Where did the memory go?

I have a 30 gig ipod that I just reformatted.  I tried to put files on it and its telling me there is no more room.  The one file that did transfer was around 3 gig.  Where is the other 27 gig of memory being taken up?  When I view the ipod in itunes it actually tells me there is around 24 gig (roughly) available.  However when I try to use it as a hard drive and transfer files to it I recieve an error message telling me that there is no more room available.  I'm really confused.

I believe it is a 5th generation 30 gig ipod.  It was my sons and he broke the headphone jack.  He was going to throw it away.  When I caught him I took it and checked the box in itunes to use it as basicly a 30 gig flash drive.  This has come in handy since I go to school for commercial art and some of the files are quite large.
I was using it on my imac but needed it to move some information between a pc laptop (windows 7) and pc desktop (xp).  In order to do this I had to reformat the ipod using itunes.  An error message came up when I inserted the ipod into the desktop asking me if I wanted to use itunes to reformat.  I checked the box yes and off it went.  Now when you look at the settings on the ipod it says there is 24 gig of memory available.  When you look at properties of the ipod in the pc's control panel it also says there is 24 gig of memory available.  itunes again says there is 24 gig of memory available.  However when I attempt to move files into the ipod from the folder located on the pc desktop it gives me the error message telling me there is no more room available.
Now I know that when you are using a mac and you just delete files from (say a flash drive) if you do not empty the trash at times those files will remain unseen exactly as in this manner.  Once you actually empty the trash the files will fully be gone.  I never emptied the trash on the imac.  I did a total reformat on the pc and I would think that everything was now gone.  It is acting as though the trash needs emptied.  I would have to reformat the ipod to mac again to empty the trash.  I'm really a bit mystified here.

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