Ipod Classic won't sync to my Itunes on an external hard drive

So before I could sync my Ipod classic to my Itunes just fine. Then I downloaded episodes of Avatar and suddenly my Ipod won't connect with itunes. I tried connecting it but it didn't work and now all the stuff I had on my ipod is now erased yet somehow its saying I have 2 gb left. I can open my itunes on my computer and play music and t.v shows fine but when I connect my ipod it dosen't open my itunes anymore and seems to only connect the computer like when it connects windows is just like oh hey matts ipod is connected and will open a window with my stuff etc. I have reset my ipod still nothing and I'm scared to reinstall itunes because I will lose my data. Now my external hard drive is disk E and my ipod is disk F if that helps any. Again I just want my t.v shows and music back on my ipod.

by the way when I tried to sync my ipod for the second time it deleted all my music, movies and songs everything I had on there but it still says it has 2 gb left

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