Nano not recognised by windows or itunes

i recently got a new nano after my old one stopped working and my computer doesent recognise the new one at all.
it is not show in explorer or iTunes
it doesn't show any do not disconect signs
it does show a recarging icon
it is not listed in the device manager
the computer did recognise the older one and i have tried installing the software again to no avail
any help would be appreciated
SPrawL
5h17_80X - 5000   Windows XP   works with hole-punch cards and writes to tape

I got it working!
i dont know exactly what i did but i pluged it in after a weekend of it sitting idle and a speach bubble popped up in my task bar saying the device had malfunctioned.
i clicked on the bubble and it gave me several options of updating drivers, i clicked on and update automaticaly button that gave me an error message, then i stuck the cd in and was about to tell it to update from that location when the ipod was suddenly recocnised by iTunes.
I dont know what happened but it works now except it isn't shown by explorer, but ill fix that soon.
Thanks for trying to help
SPrawL

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