Ipod nano 4th Gen - not responding

Hi,
I've tried the five Rs. No joy. Tried factory reset. No joy, just error message saying ipod cannot reset.
Screen is illuminated, but dead apart from that.
Any pearls of wisdom from anyone?
Cheers
Andy

Connected iPod and a few minutes later the following message popped up: iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.
My question is this: How to perforn the "restore" function?
tia for any help.

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