Ipod being picked up as a digital camera

hello,
My windows 7 computer is picking up my ipod as a digital camera. Anyone know how I can fix this? It works fine on another computer, but wont work on mine.

it doesnt have any of those. I just got this ipod an hour ago, there is nothing on it. And it wont connect to itunes because my computer thinks it is a camera.

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