Ipod classic not shown in itunes

I have recently been having A LOT of problems with my 3 month old 80gb ipod classic. i used to get the (-48) error and then i started to get the (-69) error. i tried some suggestions and nothing seemed to be working and then earlier this week i got the (-50) error. i used the link that is supplied on this board to solve it, but it only made things worse! now when i plug my ipod in, nothing shows up in itunes although it shows that my ipod is plugged in in My Computer. Also, i have read that i should go to Disk Manager in the control panel, but my ipod is not shown there like i am told it should be. someone please help me, I'm going crazy!!

I'm very disappointed with this problem, which I had also. Suddenly, I couldn't sync my ipod u2 special edition with the provided firewire cable. The ipod just wasn't shown in itunes. Happily, my wife have a newer ipod with was shipped with an usb sync cable. So now I have to sync my ipod with the usb cable, just because Apple decided to leave old ipod owners without sync capabilities. Ah, of course, if you don't want to buy a new cable....very disappointing.
This strategies reminds me of the times were Steve Jobs wasn't in the company and I had to go for a Windows machine because buying an old RAM memory was simply impossible. Don't do it again, please, don't leave old mac users at the side of the road.

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