IPod not recognised and nothing is working.

After six months of working beautifully, my 5th gen iPod is not being recognised by iTunes or Windows. The "do not disconnect" icon doesn't even show up. I've tried all the solutions in the other thread on the topic, but they don't work; I can't restore the iPod because it won't show up in iTunes; I can't restore the drivers because it doesn't show up in Windows. I've tried connecting in disk mode and to other ports on the computer, same result. I've also tried connecting it to other computers running Windows and it isn't recognised on them either. Is there anything I can do (some way of restoring factory settings without connecting to iTunes, maybe?) or do I have to send it back?
If it helps, right before this started my iPod was displaying a "file not recognised/file corrupt" error message when I tried updating it in iTunes.
5th gen iPod video   Windows XP  

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