IPod Touch 2G need help to restore

Question

Ok so I have an itouch 2g that I am having a lot of problems. My little sister got her hands on it and I have no idea what she did but it seems the firmware on the ipod got corrupted and I have been pulling my hair out trying to get this thing to restore.
The ipod will not turn on or charge by plugging into the usb port on any computer, I have tried 2 laptops and a desktop. The ipod WILL charge using a wall charger but when I plug it in the ipod gets stuck in a loop, it turns on with the apple logo and gets stuck there with no progress bar then restarts and keeps doing that over and over. If I plug it into the wall charger while holding the home key it brings me to the plug into itunes logo screen but it is plugged into the wall and as soon as I disconnect it it shuts off.
When I plug it into the computer and try to turn it on by holding the power/sleep and home button windows says unknown or unrecognized device and is unable to get it to connect. I can get it into DFU mode by holdin the power/sleep button and home key for 10 seconds then just the home key for 10 seconds, the screen remains black but windows pops up saying it has found a DFU ipod and itunes recognizes the ipod saying it has found an ipod in restore mode and to use it I have to restore it. When I try to restore the ipod using itunes it downloads the approprate firmware without a problem, verifies it with apple, and extracts it. The next step though is itunes says "preparing ipod for restore" and at this time windows makes the sound of the usb device being disconnected which I can confirm with device manager. Apparently itunes it resetting the ipod out of DFU mode to perform the restore but since windows will not recognized the ipod unless it is in DFU mode, the restore process fails here because the ipod never reconnects to the computer. While it is waiting for the ipod to reconnect I have even tried putting the ipod back into DFU mode to see if I can help it reset the ipod but all itunes does is disconnect it again.
Is there any way to completely restore the firmware through the DFU mode connection without itunes having to restart the ipod which will not work? Is there some kind of tool that can force the firmware onto the harddrive of the ipod through the DFU mode connection? I know the ipod functions and its not a hardware issue because like I said DFU mode works, itunes recognizes it as an ipod in recovery mode when loaded in DFU, when plugged into a power source the ipod turns on and requests to be plugged into itunes which makes it appear to me that the firmware got corrupted and this is why it cannot identify itself to windows to connect normally via USB and therefore charge etc.
So the problem long story short is that I can get the ipod into DFU mode to restore firmware but for some reason itunes won't load the firmware through DFU and attempts to restart the ipod into a different mode but windows won't recognize it unless it is in DFU so the restore process fails.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I won't throw this ipod out because it seems to be a software issue not hardware related.

Answer 1

Welcome to the discussions keithwired.
It looks like [Unbricking Your iPod Touch with the Manual DFU Procedure|http://thesmithfam.org/blog/2008/03/19/unbricking-your-ipod-touch-wit h-the-manual-dfu-procedure> should not be giving you the problem you describe. I'm not sure if you followed this same procedure or not.
Perhaps trying it on another computer or connected to a different USB port would help. No hubs - straight connection. It's best if you remove all USB devices except mouse and keyboard, reboot, and then connect.
Also, be sure you have disabled any anti-virus software.
Hope this helps.