IPod errors, and won't sync!

i dropped my iPod (80 GB) a couple of days ago... and when i tried to sync it it froze for a while and then it gave a message saying this: "Attempting to copy to the disk "IPOD" failed. An unknown error occurred (-53)." Along with this other message: "The iPod "IPOD" cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-1303)." what is this!? it deleted all my music and videos, and now it doesn't sync at all.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled and reset everything several times
Does that mean you did a Restore in iTunes? If so do it again. Check the box for +Enable disk use+. Find some file (or a set of files) that equals more than that 1.35GB (so maybe 2GB). Use windows to copy that 2GB of data onto the iPod (as if the iPod was an external hard drive). If that completes successfully, go back to iTunes and try syncing again to see if you can go passed the point of previous failure.
If the copy of 2GB of data in Windows fails, please post back.

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