IPod Shuffle doesn't show in Windows Explorer

My iPod Shuffle worked normally until yesterday, when my friend borrow... It shown in Windows Explorer until iTunes opened and tried to update songs. After that, I got a message "OK to disconnect", then the iPod disappeared in Windows Explorer, iTunes did recognize it but couldn't make any changes like updating songs or changing settings. When I try to enable disk use, iTunes got me an error "The disk could not be read or written to" !?
Used iPod Shuffle Reset Utility. No luck....
Any help?
Thanks a lot!!!!
Windows XP Pro

try this
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ipodshuffleresetutility10forwindows.html
or
Solution for iPod shuffel 512 not working (Green and Amber light blinking ), recommended
(This is an apple bug - thousands have the same problem
If the problem of green and amber light is still there with some people pl try this
http://www.manythings.org/shuffle/
1 set your ipod preferences on max data usage as shown on site
2 set off the option that open ipod in itunes when connected
3 get rebuild.py from net (exe) and put it on your base directory of ipod and run it, info is given on above site,
every time u edit the songs directory hit the above file
If you get solved mail on [email protected]
thanks
ENJOY_!!!

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