Ipod recognized by Windows, but does not synch

I recently had a hard drive crash, and I used one of those Ipod-to-Itunes programs to transfer my music back onto my computer and itunes. When I plug my ipod in, Itunes recognizes that my ipod is connected, but that's it, it just sits there. I can't manually tell itunes to synch my ipod. Is there something I'm missing here? Then when I try to eject it, it tells me that I can't because there are files in use.

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Problem solved Hallelujah!!
Send your checks to MarkinMadison!! Here's his post:
"Solution to "Software required for communicating with the iPod is not installed"!
I battled this same problem for about 5 hours. Going through re-installations, the "5 R's", all these discussion boards. Nothing worked.
The problem is that iPodService was repeatedly crashing after minute or so. You can verify this by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete and noting that iPodService is missing from the process list (sort by image name), or by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting "Manage", then going to Services and checking out the IPodService service - if it gives you the option to "Start", then it's not running.
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1. De-install iTunes and iPod (if you have the updater installed) completely by going to Start --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. Also delete the C:\Program Files\iTunes and c:\Progam Files\iPod\bin directories. (Don't worry, this doesn't affect your saved music files.)
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5. Re-install iTunes. I re-installed iTunes and reconnected the iPod, and everything worked.
I want to repeat that editing the registry can completely mess up your computer if you modify the wrong things, so only do this if you're comfortable, and be extremely careful.
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Mark"

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disk mode.
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If this issue still persists, locate to device manager, uninstall and reinstall USB Mass Storage Device driver.
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