Ipod Restore help. PLEASE. I'M DESPERATE

Okay so I have an 80 gb IPod classic. Not sure what generation it is, but I've had it for about 6 years. It has all my music on it, some that I cannot get back unfortunately. I cannot remember the last time (if ever) that I voluntarily backed up the IPod. Now out of nowhere after it being fine, I am getting the message "Use Itunes to Restore" over & over again. I know doing this will wipe away all of my songs, and I don't want that because I can't get a lot of them back. (The first 3 years of having my ipod I used a desktop that has since crashed)
My question is, does anybody know if there is a way for me to back up my iPod, and then do the restore? I've tried a hard reset and everything, but it just brings me back to the message about restoring. Please help in any way you can!

Hi ,
Assign a static ip address on your computer, its either on the wireless connection or on the lan connection , it depends if the computer that wanted to open the ports is wired or wireless...
Then access the set-up page of the linksys router , open up internet explorer and type 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.2.1 and leave the username blank and admin for the password as default ..
Click on applications and gaming tab and be sure that you have the ports needed to be forwarded so on the start port, type the port that needs to be opened and type the same port on the end port and protocol and the fourth space for ip address should be the same # on the ip address that you have assigned on the computer and check enable ; do the other things on the other port #s if you do have several port numbers and save settings...
Hope this helps

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