Ipod 4g touch is not recognized by computer and wont turn on or restore

I bought and ipod touch off a friend because he had drained the battery and forgot his passcode. I charged it in my car and he entered the wrong passcode too many times so it said ipod disabled connect to itunes. And then it shut off. I have not been able to turn it on since. I tried connecting it to my computer. My computer won't even recognize it. I tried to restore it. Nothing happened. And then while i t was still plugged in, the apple logo screen flashed on and off for about 5 minutes. After that, nothing. Any ideas? I called apple support and they couldn't help because I don't have the serial number. For some reason it is not on the back of the ipod.

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