Itunes not showing Ipod

I have a 20 gig ipod that has worked fine for six months. last week when i connectedn it to my laptop via usb, a message came up and said i had to restore my ipod(and it wouldn't show up on itunes). tried to restore it but had another error "ipod service error". I followed everything in ipod support. uninstalled and reinstalled ituned. I'm able to restore the ipod now and windows does recognize it but itunes does not.I installed my original itunes as well as the current version. I've also installed itunes on both hard drives and used different usb ports.
help?

I've been suffering this problem too so I hope this is useful......
Tried to run restore, but wouldn't recognise iPod. Tried also to reformat but I couldn't access it in Windows Explorer, but I could see it as a removable disk, just not access it.
Have just managed to fix it as follows:
- Connected iPOD, with switch in off position.
Amber light starts flashing, Becomes visible but not accessible in Win Explorer.
- Right click on MyComputer and select Manage
- Select Storage, Disk Management
You should now see a removable disk, perhaps as a Drive E: or similar.
You hopefully can select this disk, and it is pretty unlikely that the file type will not be shown (normally would show FAT32, or NTFS).
- From the menu bar. Actions > All Tasks > Format.
- Reformat the disk as FAT32 as Deqqie says.
This hopefully should allow you to see this disk in Win Explorer which is progress.
- You should now be able to see the device using iPod updater and run a Restore.
This then had me all back to normal and working in iTunes
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