Windows hijacks iPod and treats like flash drive.

every time I connect my new ipod to my computer (vista) windows explorer opens up and shows an empty drive, so I close that and then iTunes opens and try's to sync, after 40 songs windows hijacks it, disconnects it, re-connects it and opens it again and tell me that there were some problems and it needs to scan it. I let it and it finds nothing. then itunes finds it and try's to sync from were it left off.
it keeps doing this every time,and I cant even get any songs on it now. also the restore to factory settings fails each time I try it.
before you ask, its plugged in with its cable that came in the box and is plugged into a high power UBS 2.0 port.

Sounds like you may have something else fooling with your USB setup. Do you have anything other than your mouse, keyboard and iPod connected? If so, try just having the ipod and your keyboard and mouse connected and see what happens.
It could also be a utility you might have installed, virus protection software. That kind of thing. Might try disabling that sort of thing just as your trying to sync to see if that is what is causing the problem. Once you know what is causing the issue, there is usually some work around from the folks who make the software to have it play nice with an ipod.
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i have windows 8.1 recovery image in flash drive ,i want to burn the recovery in dvds.by mistake i deleted the partition drive which was on my computer ,please help me with this problem.
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