Ipod classic 160 gb problem... AWNSER PLEASE I NEED HELP!!!

I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM TODAY WITH MY iPOD!
I wanted to listen music this morning, but my iPod kept freezing whenever i clicked the music i want to listen, i called Apple Canada Support, they sent me 2 e-mails about reseting my iPod and restore my iPod to its factory settings. I reset my iPod, luckyly it worked.
But when i wanted to connect my iPod to put some music, all my songs and videos and podcasts are gone! And everything is gone on my iPod when i connect to iTunes, when i disconnect it, it has all my songs on my iPod.
Then it says ''TAREK'S IPO'' but the iPod's name is ''Tarek's iPod'', then everything its empty when i connect it, it looks like the disk is empty.
Then i get an error box and it says: ''iTunes cannot read the contenets of the iPod ''TAREK'S IPO''. Go to the summary tab in iPod preferences and click Restore to restore this iPod to factory settings. OK.
Then i click OK, then it takes me to the Summary tab, and it says on the DEVICES section: iPod, then on the summary tab on the top it says:
iPod
Name: iPod
Capacity: n/a
Software verision: 1.1.2
Serial number: .................
I am so ******!! I cannot belive it just happened to me for the first time
Please someone help me!! please reply to this topic And i have some pictures to proof it that its not true!! PLEASE I BEG YOU SOMEONE HELP ME!!

Your symptoms resemble those in this article: Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear. Changing the drive letter assigned to the iPod may help. 3rd party USB device drivers have also been known to interfere with iPod communications. E.g. I had an Epson printer that I had to disconnect before connecting any other USB drive.
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Hi turingtest2,
Thank you for the info, with formatting my iPod I managed to connect it to iTunes again.
However..in the page you linked to there is a section about how transferring large amounts of data can dump your library. That seems to be the problem in this case. It won't even allow me to transfer more than 2 gigabytes of music per sync, if I go higher it will dump everything again. Having over >60 GB of music in my library, this is disastrous to say the least.
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