Ipod classic does not read my files

I just purchased an ipod classic (I haven't had one til today)and I connect it to my laptop, my computer reads it as a hard drive, so I copyed music and videos from my computer to ipod and when I disconnected it ipod was saing that I have no music files or no videos. So what I did wrong? Can't have itunes, not an option

If you can't have iTunes, you're going to have problems. If you drag and drop files on to the iPod through Windows Explorer, they will be available as data files to be transferred to another computer but the iPod operating system will not see or play them. You need to load the files through iTunes (best way) or some third party manager. I've heard there's a plug in for WinAmp that may allow you to load your iPod.
This article may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_iPodManagers
Best of luck.

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