Last night, I copied several albums to his iPod and it was working fine. It's a 20gb 3rd gen iPod. In iTunes, with the iPod plugged in, I even listened to several songs from the albums I copied over by clicking them in iTunes. I hadn't tried listening to them on the iPod itself with it unplugged.
I gave it back to my cousin and he left. He said the albums I copied over weren't on it, and when he tried to play a song that he DID have, he now gets one of these:
He brought it back over and I looked at it myself. It flops back and forth between the Apple logo for a minute, then goes to the folder icon and back to the Apple icon again. I plugged it into my computer to do a restore, but it doesn't detect it long enough to do so. It will detect it for a second, display the "no" symbol with "Do not disconnect" and it'll show up in My Computer, and vanish before I can do anything to it while going back to the Apple logo. Then it appears again and acts like I just plugged it in, then acts like I unplugged it. Resetting it by holding center and up does nothing but send it back to the Apple logo to continue the cycle. I tried holding the center and down buttons to put it in disk mode, but when I plug it back in it starts the cycle all over again. I can also hear the hard drive going crazy the whole time, spinning really fast and then slowing down over and over.
Not sure what to do with it. Any tips? Is this a hardware or software problem? Or both?
