Computer doesn't recognize that ipod is plugged in

So I've had this ipod for at least a year now and have been using the same computer for the past 7 months and it's always worked fine. Now all of the sudden my computer doesn't recognize that it is plugged in. It's not even that it doesn't recognize the USB device it's not there period. I tried manually putting it into disk mode but it still didn't recognize it. Please help!!

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