IPod Classic not recognized by new 13 inch macbook...

I recently tried to update songs on my ipod, but when i connected it to my computer, itunes slowed drastically, and froze several times. i had to force quit itunes and manually eject from the desktop. a few days later, i had given up on updating, and was going to restore my ipod, but i found that my computer wouldn't recognize my ipod at all. i tried all the usb ports, reset the ipod and computer, reinstalled itunes, etc...
and nothing. not even connecting my ipod to a windows computer would allow me to reformat.
new itunes version 8.1.1 and ipod classic 120gb by the way.
anyone else with the same problem?

Did you try to put it into diskmode to be able to reformat or restore? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363

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