Hard drive replacement major issues

I recently purchased a fifth (5.0g) generation ipod (30gb), with a view to replacing the headphone jack assembly, complete casing, and battery, and upgrading the hard disk (was 30gb, wanted to move to 120gb) of my purchases to have arrived are the headphone jack, which i tested and works fine, (these issues arose while using the ipod i originally recieved, with only the new headphone jack assembly and new hard disk) then my toshiba MK1224GAL hard disk (8mm) arrived, after replacing the hard disk i was met with a screen asking me to plug into itunes and restore, knowing the drive is blank i tried plugging into windows, and wanting to format it went to my computer, however right clicking to get to the 'format' option caused my computer to crash, multiple tries failed, computer-management-disk management also caused the window to crash and would not display the connected drives, from the command prompt the DISKPART command could not load a list of drives either, attemtpted to restore with itunes, everything went smoothly until i was told to wait for my ipod to re-start, however it never re-started, after trying multiple tries i attempted to use the HP USB key formatting software, with which i was continuously met with the 'disk is write-protected' error, then found anapod ipod initialiser, which crashes on any attempt to format my ipod's new drive. I swapped back to the original 30gb drive to see if the ipod still worked - which it did just as before, until i re-inserted the new 120gb drive where starting or resetting the ipod resulted in it getting to the black apple screen with the back-light off, and then freezing, any attempt to get it into disk-mode has been unsuccessful, and after a while im met with 'ipod battery is very low, charging'. upon this i reverted to the original 30gb drive and am met with the same issue, has anyone any idea what to do now? im utterly stumped

mat,
And when I plug it in I can hear a quiet buzzing/whining noise, and the power button doesnt seem to do anything
Yah that doesn't seem right.
Ive tested the power on switch and its ok
How was that done?
As soon as I press the PRAM reset switch the power supply noise changes from a random whine to a fix pitch whine for about 5 secs or until I press the power on switch
That's also not right. You're trying to reset the "PRAM" actually called the PMU in this machine while it's active and that's for sure not right.
I can make the same offer to you as I did to TN.
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