Ipod Classic - recognised but does not sync

I have a Windows 7 laptop and an iPod Classic.
I am hoping to upgrade my laptop hard drive soon - most of one partition is iTunes.
I had a problem the other day which meant that I had to move iTunes to a different drive.
iTunes then failed to pick up most of the music I have loaded.
So I manually re-pointed iTunes, artist-by-artist to the new drive.
Since then, although iTunes recognises the iPod, it won't sync.
This could be because I didn't copy over all the artists - so that there are items on the iPod that aren't on the laptop.
I have tried to sync and nothing is happening - it's like the last update before re-direct Day

I had the same problem and ended up solving it by moving my plug from a hub directly to a mb usb header which allowed itunes to see my ipod.

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