HELP NEEDED! 80Gb Classic , all Music is gone!

Hi everybody, I'm desperately looking for help.
Some days ago I was using iTunes, as always. Then I ejected my iPod...everything as usual, except that the Apple logo appeared on my iPod...after several seconds, it comes out the language selection menu, and then I noticed that all the music, 7999 tracks, were gone!
Now the iPod isn't recognized by iTunes, and Windows Vista sees it, but tells me that it needs to be formatted in order to be used. My iPod wasn't synchronized with the iTunes Library, I used to add songs manually. Unfortunately, my external HD, where I kept all my stuff, including songs, is broken too!
What should I do in order to have all my songs back?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Sounds like the iPod's library is damaged and so it needs to restored. If the media files are still present on the drive then the following may help.
*Recover media from iPod*
See this post from Zevoneer for options on moving your iPod data back to your computer.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7217190#7217190
Some of the tools linked to will only work if the iPod has a valid library. Others can scan the drive independently and some may even be able to rebuild a damaged library. The manual method towards the end should be able to recover your media regardless of the state of the library.
If the files system itself appears empty on the drive then you may just get luck with a drive undelete tool. There are free ones out there but it is ages since I had a use for one as I maintain decent backups.
tt2

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