My iPod Nano is not recognising its USB device, cannot download my music from iTunes library, what to do??

Why would my iPod nano suddenly not recognise its USB device? What the???? Cannot sychronise or transfer my music from my PC, had a back up USB & does not recognise this either. Please can s'one advise?
Thank you

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