After years of use, my ipod classic will not sync with itunes on any computer. I have wiped the ipod clean and it still won't sync. what to do?

I had about 80 songs on my ipod and it worked fine until one day i purchased some new music from itunes and discovered that it wouldn't sync. I tried various things and finally wiped the ipod clean thinking it would sync then. It doesn't and now I have no music on it. When I check for devices, the sync option is grayed out on itunes. I even tried it from another computer but it won't sync with that either.

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You might want to read through this post I recently wrote summarizing what can lead to synchronization problems. My first suggestion would be to determine whether the problem lies with iTunes/your computer or the iPod itself. To that end, if you have a friend with a working iTunes setup (or at the Apple store), I'd see if you can get that machine to at least connect to your iPod and restore it with something... anything. If that works, you know the iPod itself is OK and not corrupted, and you can look at disk diagnostics and such. If that doesn't work, then contact a Genius bar for service.
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What I devices I have:
I have a classic iPod and a dell laptop with windows xp.
The problem:
iTunes and iPod work fine separately, however when I plug iPod in, iTunes will not open. If iTunes was open at the time I plugged in iPod, it freezes and wont function again until iPod is disconnected. [Once I left iPod plugged in for an hour and iTunes did open, but iPod was not noted as being connected.]
iPod charges when connected. Icon takes about 5 minutes to show up in my Computer folder. When I click the icon nothing will happen or the folder will freeze up. iPod doesn’t show up in Disk Manager either. Putting iPod into Disk Mode changed nothing.
How it happened:
Once when I plugged in iPod a window (not an iTunes window) popped up saying that the device should be formatted or it may not work properly. Not wanting my iPod to stop working, I clicked ok and now my iPod isn’t working. Lesson: don’t click strange buttons
What I’ve done:
> Right clicking and clicking ‘format’ on the iPod icon while in the Computer folder – computer does nothing or freezes
> Going to ‘reset your iPod’ – didn’t fix the problem
> Restarting iPod (turn on and off)
> Telling iTunes to prevent iPod from syncing automatically
> Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes
> Put iPod in Disk Mode, computer still didn’t recognize it.
> everyother thing google and apple's self help section has recomended
Any more suggestions?

Assuming a PC start here:
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I am using windows 7 on a new laptop. iPod connects fine on my old laptop which has a windows XP os. My iPod is quite old, i have had it since 2005/2006 but i have never had any problems and i really dont want to loose all my music, videos and photos.
My sister has tried connecting her iPhone to this laptop afterwards and after a lot of hassle and iTunes constantly resetting, her iPhone finally managed to connect and is displayed in iTunes.
I have relativley good technical knowledge, i am very good at solving things and am good with computers as have an a-level in I.T, but this has me stuck and is fustrating! Any help would be most appreciated.

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I have a similar problem, I was helping a client today, he has an iPod Classic and wanted to download an album. I had to update his iTunes to Version 10, not realizing that this might not work with his older iPod. I connected the iPod to his computer via the Apple USB connector, and his computer did not recognize the iPod.
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I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I've had my Ipod classic 80GB for about 5 years. Yesterday for the first time, I encountered a major problem. My Ipod does not appear in either Itunes or My computer when connected by USB to my laptop.
The I pod just displays the message 'connected - eject before disconnecting'. Also my Itunes and internet explorer freezes while the I pod is connected.
I've researched the problem online all day and still no solution. Have already reset the Ipod to factory settings, performed diagnostics both on i tunes and disk mode on the ipod itself. The latter displays the information 'Reallocs 0 and Pending Sectors 2, which from my research indicates that the disk drive on the ipod itself is still ok.
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actually switching the 'terminal services' from
disabled to manual, I get an error message on my
computer "Error 5: Access denied" and nothing on the
site gives any indication of what to do in such an
eventuality.
Do you have an administrator account on your computer? If you are not logged in as administrator, do so before attempting to change the to manual. However, I myself am having the same problems with my own ipod..

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[Troubleshooting iTunes installation on Mac OS X|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2311]
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