IPod Nano 4th gen stuck in recovery mode

I have an iPod Nano 4th generation that I got from my sister. It worked fine the other day when I got it, and I restored it to my iTunes account with no issues. A day later, I try to turn it on and the screen stays black. I plugged it into my laptop (Windows XP) to restore, and it tells me it needs to be prepared for recovery. I click OK and the iPod beeps 4 times. It goes through the restore process just to do the same thing again. I tried it on another computer (Windows 7) at home and a Mac at work. Nothing works, it just beeps and stays in the recovery loop. I've tried everything I can find online- the 5 R's, changing the drive letter, formatting it, disabling antivirus software, etc. None of it works. I can't even boot the iPod into the diagnostics menu.

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