IPod Touch 2G wouldn't connect to iTunes, now won't work at all.

After updating my iTunes to iTunes 10 and upgrading to iOS 4, my iTunes wouldn't recognize my iPod. I tried to put it in recovery mode in order to restore it, but whenever I go to restore it, it stops part way through with some random error. So now I have an essentially useless iPod. How can I make this work again?!

I have a 2 g nano and the only way I can get itunes to see it is to connect it to my pc, have iTunes open, and then restart the nano. On the touch you'd do this by pressing your Home & Sleep buttons both for about 10 secs.
Try that or [Unable to update or restore|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808] and see if it works. You will still need to restore it but maybe it will complete it this way.

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