rockbox utility creates second, unformatted drive, prevents installtion

[Aclinjury443]

ipod 7th gen 160gb, installing through windows 10
during the installation process, after "DFU transfer complete", i get an error with the message "could not remount the device" (screenshot attatched)
in the windows explorer i now see that instead of my ipod there is now a second disc in drive D: wich also has the ipod icon, where the ipod used to be which is not formatted
the ipod drive is still there but now in a diferent port to which i assume nothing will be installed, i have not seen anyting like this happen in any tutorials
ive tried to format the mentioned disc to fat32 via commands but there was another error message saying it was "too small" i then tried another file system
and doing so fixed the error message and completed the download on rockbox utility but nothing was installed on my ipod, the only thing that gets installed succesfully is the bootloader
help is very much appreciated

[Frankenpod]

Pretty sure I've encountered that, though I've encountered so many different glitches and errors in the  eleventy-zillion times I've installed Rockbox (on flash modded ipods, which are a lot more temperamental than the original hard-drive) I can't remember when they happened and what fixed each of them.  With that one, I _think_ I just did what the RBinstall utility instructions suggested - manually rebooted the ipod at that point.

  What I vaguely remember helped was to manually reboot it into either disk mode (holding centre and play button after holding centre and menu button to reboot) or into original firmware mode (holding menu button alone for a while, after rebooting) rather than letting it boot into RB's usb mode (which it's supposed to use for installing RB, but at least on flash mods doesn't always work).  Messing around with windows formatting things usually causes more problems than it solves.
 
However these sorts of problems always occurred with flash mods (which are a PITA, really), if it happens with the original hard drive that suggests maybe something else has gone awry (a failing drive?).

I'm not an RB developer, though, so maybe someone will come along with a better solution, but it does _tell_ you to 'try and remount it manually', so seems logical to try that first.