Can't access music on my iPod

Alright, so I have a 20 GB, 4th generation iPod on which I've put about 1,000 songs so far. For the past year, my iPod has been having issues (freezing, making the clicking noise with the sad iPod icon...) but I recently got it working again ...so I thought.
When I try to play the music on my iPod, none of it shows up. It doesn't matter if I try to access the music by Song, Artist, Genre, Album, Playlist... it's blank.
When I plug my iPod into my computer and open it with itunes, the same thing happens... none of my music shows up.
However, it still says I've used [x] number of GB, and when I open my iPod on the computer just as a hard drive, I can see the music files there.
I've tried uploading a few new songs onto my iPod and those ones do show up, but all the music I've added previously doesn't show up, though it appears to still be on the iPod.
Does anyone know what's up with this, or have any solutions to the problem?
Thanks in advance,
- C.
  Windows XP  

it could be caused by bad sectors on the HD of your iPod or the corrupted music/OS files.
Have you tried to do a format (not quick format) for your iPod and then a Restore?

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