Ipod Corrupted? No iPod in iTunes? Space being taken up on iPod when empty?

I have a black 80gb iPod classic, I'm pretty sure it's the newest generation. I've had it for about a year & use it constantly, & besides a few common errors it's always worked fine. Before I had my 80gb I had a 2gb iPod nano for 2 years & it worked fine also. The other day I was listening to it & turned it off for about an hour. When I turned it back on all my music, videos, and the one game I purchased were deleted. Default games still worked, clocks I had set up were still there, & every other default thing was still there; the thing is, 14 gb was being used & that's how much space I using before. I get home & plug it into iTunes & it says "The iPod 'Matt's iPod' is corrupt." It said nothing about how to fix it, but I thought of restoring it since something similar had happened to my nano & it was fixed by restoring it. Yet, when I clicked on my iPod, the screen said my corrupt & the normal screen with Update,Restore,memory used by iPod, picture of my iPod, etc. was gone. I close iTunes,take out my iPod & try again, this time my iPod's not even in iTunes. I searched Yahoo! Answers & other sites like that, the Apple Support site, everything & tried everything: tried updating my USB but it's updated as can be & Windows recognizes my iPod like normal, tried different versions of iTunes with no luck, tried searching my iPod (& iTunes) for viruses & problems, disk mode, dll's, even tried formating my iPod. So as far as I can tell, my iPod is working fine since it turns on & I can go through everything normally, but for some reason it can't be detected in iTunes.
My iPod has also been fully charged the whole time.
Try to help based on that info, the more I figure about what's wrong out, I'll update.

Not certain from your post if you have tried changing the drive letter of your ipod.
Try resetting the ipod, or putting it into disk mode before connecting it. If that does not make itunes recognize it, then you may need to change the drive letter of your ipod.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
If you can't see the ipod in disk management, before you connect the ipod, open itunes, select edit/preferences. This will make itunes busy. Then connect the ipod.

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