Ipod recognised on vista but wants to format it...

Basically i've recently re-installed vista64 after it went faulty, went to setup itunes/ipod on this install and it's not being picke dup properly.
If i plug in the ipod, itunes says its corrupted and wants to run a restore, vista wants to format it.. can't explore the drive in my computer etc
if i plug the ipod into my other pcs or one in work it works fine, can explore the drive etcetc.
anyone any ideas what the problem is, tried 3 different versions of itunes, different usb ports etc

oh aye and it's a 5th gen 80gb ipod

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