Ipod nano shows memory full, 0 songs, can't restore.
I have an older Ipod nano (based on a quick google search I think it's a series 4) and it's worked great for several years, until this week. One day I went to play some songs and it suddenly showed 0 songs everywhere I looked. I then went into itunes and tried to sync it but it said the memory is full. I am using the regular USB cord it came with, windows 7, and now as far as I know the newest itunes.
- I've tried the reset (holding menu and the middle button until the little apple shows up) and that did not make a difference.
- I've tried restarting the computer, no difference.
- I've successfully updated my itunes.
- I've repeatedly tried to update my ipod however I keep getting error messages (usually error 1437, once I saw a different one but I unfortunately I cannot remember what it was)
- Now any time I connect my ipod it only shows up in itunes for maybe a minute at the most and then ejects itself, and will not show up in itunes again until I restart the computer.
- I've tried some ideas for the error messages such as turning on and off my anti virus, turning on and off "enable disk use" followed by doing the c:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc thing, and so far nothing has worked.
- Now when I connect my ipod it ejects itself from itunes in well under a minute, which leaves very little if any time at all to troubleshoot it via itunes.
I am now a couple hours into this snag and very frustrated with my apple product in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
James
iPod nano, Windows 7