PLEASE HELP - Ipod Showing In My Comp But Not Itunes Etc

Hi there
Can someone PLEASE help me! I am at my wits end with my Ipod.
A few weeks ago I was in the middle of listening to a song and my ipod crashed then switched itself off. Ever since then I haven't been able to get it to connect to Itunes or the Updater and it won't play anything.
When I switch the ipod on I get various errors ranging from the unhappy ipod to the folder with the exclamation mark.
When I connect my ipod to my pc an autoplay window appears and sometimes I get an error saying the drive my ipod is connected to isn't formatted.
So far I have tried the following
Reinstalled Itunes
Going into Disk Management and changing the Drive the ipod uses
Reset The Ipod
Tried Using Another USB Port
Put the Ipod Into Disk Mode
Nothing Works! After I changed the drive the ipod uses things looked promising. The Ipod was detected by the updater and it was started to restore the ipod however after a few minutes the ipod seemed to lose the connection and I got the error with the Battery icon.
Can someone please help me!

"my dad pressed view and then he chose the 3rd picture thing and songs went into."
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