Ipod 120gb won't sync anymore, won't even let me format it..

I connected my Ipod Classic 120gb Black about 3 months ago to my laptop (Windows 7) and it wasn't discovered by iTunes for some reason. This just happened randomly, it was working perfectly fine before. Anyways, when I connected it
1) I got the option to format it, and I clicked yes "Format Disk"
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2) and then another window popped up and I clicked start
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3) and then said "Windows was unable to complete the format". I tried unchecking "Quick Format" and trying again but still get the same error.
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I have no idea what's going on, this just happened randomly about 3 months ago. I was to lazy to look for help then so I'm just doing it now. Any idea's on how to fix this? I really don't want to buy another iPod..

this is my second 120gb classic bought the first one and it started doing the same thing so got it replaced by apple store for £85 as it was out of warrenty now this ipod is doing the exact same

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