Won't sync files????

When attempting to sync an iPhone or iPod I am getting an error: "Attempting to copy to the disk "iPhone" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to." This happens with iPod's also, so it's not the iPhone.

I'm having exactly the same problem.
iTunes will sync contacts, and calendars, etc to the iphone but no music to the iphone or my ipod.
In addition I have imported tracks not playing properly (they play for a couple of seconds, then skip to next track).
Major nightmare, I use my ipod for work.

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