IPod Classic won't boot, Windows wants to reformat it, iTunes ignores it.

Hello everyone, hopefully someone can help. I was using my 80Gb iPod Classic as a portable hard-drive today at school, when, during a file copying process, it told me to please insert a disk drive. I safely removed it, and plugged it back in. It displayed the Apple logo, then said "connect to iTunes to restore". I took it back home, and plugged it in. In My Computer it appears as a Removable Disk, and double-clicking it, a window pops up telling me to reformat the disk drive.
iTunes does not detect it, and I've updated the iTunes software, still no luck. The iPod itself doesn't turn on properly, I can get into the diagnostics windows, and everything seems to be working fine there. When in the reformating window, there is no option to set it as FAT32 file system, and the capacity is unknown.
I think there's probably a corrupted file preventing it from booting, but I'm not sure. Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

When the iPod is connected to iTunes, look on the Device/Podcasts section and make sure Sync Podcasts is on.

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