Ipod Starts up, stops, resets, and does it all over again...

Hey all,
I tried searching but couldn't find anything like what I have. I recently purchased a new laptop, swapped my old library onto the new laptop, and then went to 'sync' on the new laptop. Things seemed to be working fine, unplugged the ipod, let it sit for a few hours...went to turn it on and it froze up. Reset it, but now, it loads up, shows the apple symbol (you can hear the HD winding up) gets about 4-5 seconds into it, clicks off, then starts it all over again.
I've been unable to get it to do anything...it won't reset, connecting it to a power source doesn't do anything, and of course, it does this for as long as it can then the battery burns its self out.
Does this sound fixable without bringing it in?
Thanks guys,
Jared

This exact same thing happened to me, and I have a solution. What I did, is I just let it sit out, and do its thing (restarting a bunch) then it eventually went to the main menu. I plugged it into my computer, and did a restore.
Now if that doesn't work for you, you may need to force mount it. Plug the iPod into your computer, and hold down the middle and play/pause button. Hopefully it should stop its nonsense and show up in your computer and let you do a restore in iTunes.
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