Ipod Classic Wiped, Any Advice ?

Last week my Ipod classic wiped itself. This occured after I had tried to listen to a podcast where it kept freezing. Confusingly although the Ipod says that there is no music/video/podcasts on there it states that it has 7.9 GB of memory used. Thinking back it has been acting oddly over the last few months somethimes podcasts would suddenly stop and return to the menu when I hadn't pushed any buttons (or at least I thought I hadn't) and on a least one other occasion it had wiped itself (although reconnecting it to my computer quickly resoved that). I have had this Ipod for slightly over 2 years (I bought it in August 2009), so is there anything that can be done to save it ?

Sounds like it may need a Restore.
Start at http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/ and follow the steps listed.

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