IPod Classic plays music, but will not show in iTuens or My computer

My ipod was working perfectly fine until 2 nights ago. I never had a problem with it then it just randomly disconnected from iTunes. I I safely removed it then plugged it back in and it froze iTunes, and didn't show in My Computer. After repeating the 5R's several times, I finally got the iPod to show, but it shows on My Computer as a drive that needs to be reformatted (both in normal and in disk mode) and I can't access it at all, when I click the ipod icon, the folder freezes for about 5-10 minutes then goes back to normal and tells me it can;t be accessed and needs to be reformatted. It will randomly show in iTunes but it will tell me that it needs to be restored to factory settings, which iTunes will not do for me.
The iPod itself works perfectly fine when its not hooked into my pc. It does everything its supposed to do. I tried hooking it in other PC's with different OS (all Windows) and I get the same result.
I also noticed that when I go into the iPod settings, it tells me that 28mb is free, when there should be about 30-40gb free. I have tried to use software like copy trans, stellar Phoenix and others but any program that tries to access the drive will freeze, lock up the pc or get a windows error.
I'm using an 80GB iPod Classic, running XP. The iPod, when hooked in, shows the typical connected logo with the two half circle arrows spinning. I get no error codes or messages other than Windows telling me it needs to be reformatted and iTunes telling me to restore it. I have no way--that I know of--to access any data on it. There is nothing in the iPod except for music and 2 videos, I haven't added any extra files to it in 2 weeks.

Same problem here - 80 gb classic and same thing happened to me this week - plays fine alone - when hooked to computer says it needs to be reformatted and then when i try to reformat i get error 1415 can't reformat - this is bs and im not shelling out for another ipod - why would it work fine but when connecting it to windows suddenly not work> I think Itunes 10 has got some issues

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HI, i am having the same issue with my ipod. Can you please tell me what you mean by putting on "disk mode" and deleting the files? Thanks
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*Check your iPod with Diagnostics Mode*
It's possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. Your iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for *Manual Test*, then select *IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData* to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine for my 2 year old 6th Generation Classic:
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Temp: Max 50c
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Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.
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