I have a 2cd Generation iPod touch and it will not read on finder or iTunes.

Question

My friend comes to me anything and everything I.T, especially when it comes to his iPod. He came to me the other day, Tuesday to be exact and told me his iPod wasn't showing up on his computer. We both have MacBook Airs as given to us by our school. His charger doesn't work so we used my iPhone charger which has never been a problem before. The iPod used to be his cousins and she upgraded and gave him that iPod. I believe it was synced to a Windows computer. He told me it wasn't showing up but yet it claims to be charging, even giving me the sound when we hooked it to the computer. He hasn't downloaded anything yet, so I soft reseted the iPod by going into settings->general->erase all content and I let it do its thing. Its giving me the USB-->iTunes logo and I know I can't get back into the iPod because it's erased. Huge mistake I made. I let it charge overnight so the battery is fully full. We both updated our iTunes and our computers software. I tried putting it into DFU mode and it dosen't do anything. I turned it off and plugged it in and it comes on, but still dosen't read on iTunes nor Finder. I tried deleting apple mobile sync but its not even a source on my computer. Im usually good with finding things & I don't give up until I fixed it. When it comes down to me posting in forums, that means its serious lol, please, I need help. Help Please!
p.s: because I reseted it, I am not able to figure out what operating system it's in and cannot figure out its last update, as a fyi.

Answer 1

If it never worked before for your friend, it could be broken (or was working unreliably).  There may be a reason your friend's cousin gave it away.
If it does not appear in iTunes, what you can try is more limited.  It did operate by itself (when disconnected), correct, although it may now be erased?  So it still charges when connected?
Also, you are connecting it to a connection that definitely works with your iPhone, right?  So we can rule out iTunes, the Mac's USB port, and the docking cable as reasons the iPod is not connecting.
If you have not already, you can try resetting the iPod while it is connected to the Mac (with iTunes running)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
Also, this forum category is actually for older (music player) iPods.  You may want to summarize what you know so far and ask the question in a new topic here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipod/ipod_touch
which is the forum category for iPod touch.  More iPod touch users are likely to read your question there.  I could request that this topic be moved there, but a brand new questions will be read more often.