Ipod Capacity vanishes from 60 GB to 16 GB

I'm ipod with color display suddenly decided that it only has 16 GB opposed to the 60 GB that it should be. This all spans from the fact that it stopped functioning and was displaying the ipod support icon. I formatting the drive in windows and then as I poorly recall it suddenly started to display 16 GB instead. I've tried restoring it in itunes as well as formatting the drive multiple times. When I check the drive in windows it just shows the 16 GB free and in Ubuntu, it just shows a 17 GB (16.3 GB) partition and a 32 MB where the bootloader is stored. I should note that ipod is still functioning with it's reduced size.
Is there anything else I can do to recover this lost capacity? This is all rather disappointing since I rather enjoyed the large capacity when I do machine to machine data transfers.

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