IPod Mini has no library.

Hello everyone, this is my first post ever. It's a sad story, actually. I had a beautiful 1st generation iPod touch for about two years ago. Recently, my girlfriend's father managed to water damage my iPod touch, and refuses to replace it. Nice guy, isn't he? I don't have to funds to replace my touch, and I know nobody in the world covers water damage, so I found my old 4GB iPod mini. I want to use it until I can save up for a new however, it's not recognized by iTunes. Windows XP recognizes it as an iPod, but iTunes (9.2.0.61) never recognizes it. I tried using 3rd party programs such as CopyTrans, and CopyTrans diagnosed the issue saying that my iPod mini has no library and thats why it can't be recognized. How do I fix this? Thanks to all for reading and helping!

Hello jbass54,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Have you tried some of the basics yet such as trying a different connector cable or simply plugging the iPod into different ports? Perhaps try and reset the iPod with it connected to your PC. To do this, toggle the hold switch on and off, then press and hold the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together until the Apple logo appears. You may want to attempt this a few times for good measure.
If still no luck, try and force the iPod into *Disk Mode*.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1363
Here is more troubleshooting procedures to follow for this issue.
[iPod not recognized in 'My Computer' and in iTunes for Windows|http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1369]
As well as this one.
[iPod appears in Windows but not in iTunes|http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1363]
B-rock

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