Ipod recovery mode

hi, I have an 1st gen ipod nano that does not work, the scroll wheel and buttons dont work.
so I use as a flash drive, every time I plug into my computer (mac or windows) itunes tells me its in recovery mode, How do I stop itunes from telling me that?

Hi all.
After updating my 1st gen ipod nano to V1.1.3, i constantly get an error message "ipod in recovery mode". I have restored several times, ejected it and restarted itunes. I have even upgraded to Itunes 8. Still the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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