IPOD nano 4Gb not detected

Hi all, hope you can help...
Received nano on 26th April. All was working well, playing music and connecting to computer up until I updated to IPOD 1.1.1. This update seems to have unleashed the IPOD gremlins. iTunes no longer recognises the ipod nor does my computer, its just a F drive now. Tried the 5 F's to no avail (although i cannot open and run the restore program as it just hangs). All my IPOD does is display 'do not disconnect' when connected to the computer. Also all of my music on my IPOD has been wiped clean, but it still indicates that it is 3.3Gb full. Pleae can any one help??? Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem with my 2GB Nano. Here's the solution:
1.- Reset (hold, release hold, press menu + select)
2.- Boot in disk mode (select + play after reset).
4.- Plug iPod in usb port
3.- Format iPod (in windows run "format /q /v:IPOD i:" where i: is your ipod's drive letter)*.
4.- Run apple updater and restore.
* If you are running itunes maybe it wont let you format, you will have to kill ipodService.exe and iTunesHelper.exe (Press ctrl + shift + esc, go to processess, select those and terminate them)
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