Ipod not recognised by anything! Help!!!

I am running Windows XP and have a iPod click wheel.
iTunes (6.0.5.20) will now not recognise it; and neither will the updater. I have reset my ipod, but still no joy. When I try the updater, a pop up box called Autoplay comes up and it looks like it is searching for something.
I then read some posts and put the ipod into Disk mode - this then made it recognisable by the updater and I tried to restore. However, after a while, it stopped and I got a message "Cannot mount iPod".
Since then, the updater will not recognise the ipod, even in disk mode.
I think the error started when i got a message saying that one of my files (can't remember which) was corrupt (at this point, itunes was recognising the ipod); i then took the cable out and put it back in again, and it looked like all the songs on my ipod were being updated (as if just being out put on). Perhaps foolishly, I took the cable out again, and although it looks like I have 12,000 tracks on the ipod, many of them just skip over as if they are not there....
please help!
thanks

As you now realise unplugging the cable is not a good idea. What you should have done (in the first place) is to have either run the updater to restore (which wipes all the files on the iPod and should fix the filesystem) or run chkdsk (which may have prevented the problem getting worse). When a bit of a filesystem is damaged it tends to spread, if you fix it then it generally goes no further. Try putting the iPod into disk mode and use chkdsk to fix it. You need to use the /R (or at least the /F) parameter to fix it (e.g. Chkdsk I: /R, I: is the drive letter windows has allocated to your iPod).

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