Ipod Showing as hard disk but files corrupt and not showing in itunes

my ipod has been acting funny recently but skiping multiple songs and none of the album arts showing up. i plugged it into my laptop just not and it said i need to restore my ipod. i restored it but that did nothing to my ipod. all of the songs were on there still and nothing had been taken off. i tried the same on my other computer but this has not even showed my ipod up in itunes. it is being shown in disk mode even though i didn't select the disk mode option. i tried to click on the files on the ipod but they were being shown as corrupt. i have tried all troubleshooting but no help. please help me. thankyou

Try to restore your iPod from iTunes.
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