IPod 4 Gen. Problems

I refurbisheded my iPod 4 Gen. iPod and I got back and tried to restore it from my old one and it didn't work. Then into went into restore mode and my computer won't restore it and I can't figure out why. Can anybody help me?

What is the exact wording of thre error message?
musiclover11.29.98 wrote:
It doesn't give me an error just says that it won't restore it because something went wrong.

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