How to enable disk use on an iPod in "recovery mode"?

I am trying to enable disk use on my iPod classic 80GB to recover lost files. One day out of the blue, 12 days worth of music vanished from my iPod, and as my laptop that stored all of my music was stolen a few months earlier, I need to manually recover the files by first enabling disk use (at least according to the various tutorials I have read online). There should be a box you can check or uncheck in the summary of the iPod when it's plugged in, but on my iTunes, all it shows in the summary is "iPod recovery mode" and underneath a "Restore iPod button". Is the "enable disk use" option not available because it is in recovery mode or am I just missing something?

ninrutgib wrote:
... is "iPod recovery mode" and underneath a "Restore iPod button". Is the "enable disk use" option not available because it is in recovery mode...
AFAIK this is the case...
You may want to check here...
http://www.apple.com/support/ipodclassic/

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