80GB Classic, Restoration Loop

My 80GB iPod Classic crashed, every time i turn it on it displays the apple logo and then goes straight to the red X. It will not enter disk mode and if i hold the reset button without letting go when its plugged in the computer will recognise it and tells me i need to restore my iPod. When i click restore it cannot complete the initial progress then the ipod turns back on and goes to the red X. The computer does not recognise the iPod in my computer or anywhere else on my computers hard drive. After reading essentially every support article on the issue ive taken to posting the issue myself to see if anyone knows anything further? Any help would be greatly appreciated because paying to have it fixed is out of the question due to lack of money. Thanks.

We have uninstalled and reinstalled itunes again, and this time it seems to have solved the problem. Now we're having another one which I'm currently scanning the forum for solutions. Now he's getting repeated albums in the album list view. The same two albums are repeated on the iPod 13 times, where they are only in iTunes once. We tried using iTunes to restore the iPod, and we got the same "insufficient access priviledge" error message. AAAAARGH!!!
But in answer to your question, Mobbie, I believe we have another computer we can use. Since the music is on an external hard drive, it shouldn't be too hard to try that to fix this new problem.
Message was edited by: sdimartino

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