1st Gen Shuffle not rec'd by Windows/Itunes/Laptop

I've had my 512 1st gen shuffle for approx. 1 year.
The battery died so I plugged the shuffle into my CPU's (Windows XP Home SP2, DFI Lanparty Motherboard, AMD 3000 Processor yadda yadda yadda)
USB port and there was no response. I tried multiple ports, restarted computer, installed latest and greatest Itunes.
I tried my flashdrive on my desktop, it works fine.
So then I tried my Ipod on my laptop (which does not have itunes, windows xp home, old pos) and the laptop did NOT recognize the ipod.
However the ipod, although nearing battery death, still works, plays music, skips songs, it just refuses to play nice with my computers.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
~Mike
1st Gen Shuffle   Windows XP  

I have a similar issue..
The iPod name has changed to iPod, the serial number doesn't appear to be right. The version of the software is correct at 1.1.5 and the capacity of the player is now n/a
Both have been operating flawlessly one with windows and one with Mac for almost two years. I see that there are quite a few restore issues being raised on the forum at the minute... does anyone know if this is an issue related to the latest version of software or is it just something that I have been unaware of?
I'm scared to plug my second shuffle in just in case it turns into a non-functional piece of white plastic too..

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