I've had my iPod for about three months now, and this is the first issue I've had with it.

When I connect it to my computer, iTunes and iPod Updater don't recognize that it's connected. I tried uninstalling everything and reinstalling it. I finally got iPod Updater to recognize it, so I decided to restore to factory settings. However, I got an error messages saying "Formatting failure. Disk write error." Now I can't even get iPod Updater to open (it says iPod service failure).

Any suggestions?

Thanks.