Ipod classic wont Restore

Can anyone help!!! My friend gave me his ipod because he got a new one. Being an old git & not knowing much about things like this, I thought i would restore to factory settings to get rid of all is Rap music. So i connect it up to the pc, follow all the instructions. At the end of it it says to reconnect to a mains charger to complete restore. So thats what i did. The ipod still has a picture of a plug & wall socket on it. When pressing menu & select you can hear it rebooting & the apple logo comes up but after a few seconds it goes back to the picture of the plug & wall socket. Have I buggered it up or is there something else i should be doing.

It might be worth trying to get the iPod into disk mode so you can check it for errors before tying to restore it again.
Hold Menu+Select for about 6 seconds until it resets, then hold Menu+Play as soon as the Apple logo appears, again for about 6 seconds to put the machine in disk mode. Once in disk mode connect to your computer, then browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors*. Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive. Once these have been fixed you can reset the iPod (hold Menu+Select ) and should stand a better chance of a successful restore.
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So last week i sync'd my iPod Classic 80gb and everything worked fine.
I've been away for the week and have used my iPod in a couple of different speakers/car transmitters/playstation etc and they have all worked fine.
Then when I got home today, the ipod says 'connected' but doesnt come up in itunes.
However, it does come up in my computer as 'steff's ipod' and shows that there is space being used on the ipod, even though it comes up as blank when i use it.
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then after i reset the computer it goes around in circles and does all of this again

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