iPod Classic woes

A few weeks before, I published an article about my new iPod Classic. Although it was mainly positive, I recenly had woes with it. I will provide you my full text on my Apple Support forums topic.

I’ve been using my iPod Classic for weeks and did encounter problems until recently, I connected my iPod to my Computer to sync a Photo. iTunes displayed ‘The iPod |********| cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)’. I think I need to restore it BUT I enabled disk use and use it to back up some of my important data (I sometimes need some of my data when I’m travelling). Although I still have the original copies, the photos I took during my vacation was stored there (I used the computer from the internet cafe to transfer it to the iPod’s disk use feature). Restoring it would remove ALL of the data stored in my iPod. Also, after disconnecting it, it would be stuck to the ‘OK to disconnect’ message. This was for a few seconds before but now it hangs on that message. I really hate my devices hanging. Tried reseting (holding the Menu button and the middle button for 6 seconds ) it but it would hang on the Apple logo on screen. It will show me the Main Menu after reseting it twice. It hangs on the videos menu also! These events led me to the conclusion that I need to reset it. I tried the suggestions on the Apple Support and the sites that were returned after I Googled my iPod problem. Please help me. I’m really out of my luck.

EDIT (6/3/08): Power Mac Center folks said that the iPod’s Hard Drive is broken, currently they are trying to fix it OR if my iPod is PERMANENTLY broken, they will replace it for free because it is still under warranty, anyway thank you for all the helpful emails that I receieved.