Ipod stuck in endless restore loop...

I,ve had my ipod for a while, and all was well, untill one day i got the screen telling me to use itunes to restore. so i went to my computer and went on itunes and it asked me if i wanted to restore, so i did.
unfortunately it did nothing and it still had the same message on it, even after countless restores.
ive tryed all my usb slots, 3 different computers, formating it with the hp formatter ( error: media device is write-protected) and changing the drive letter in computer management (tells me that its unreadable or something, cant remember, but it doesn't show it as an ipod), ive try different vesions of itunes, but nothing works....
i took it to a nearby apple product selling shop and they said it might have to be repaired...
is this true?
btw: its on a pc.

Have you tried to do a Restore on a Mac? If you got the same result then it needs for a service

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