IPod touch won't sync, backup or upgrade.

I'm reasonably peeved off!
Basically a few days before iOS 4 came out my windows computer carked it and wouldn't boot so I had to restore it. I copied my songs and iTunes system files off the drive before restoring the operating system.
I got it to a workingish condition, system restored and iTunes files were copied from the back up onto the computer so when I would open iTunes it would be the same as before.
I went to try and upgrade my itouch. 3.1.3 to 4.0
I left it upgrading while I went to school.
I got back, 7 hours since i started the backup and found that to my disappointment the blasted thing froze on the backing up part of the backup and had achieved nothing.
I tried upgrading it 3 more times during the week, the same thing happened.
I tried removing my music off the iPod, thinking that too much stuff was effecting the backup, I even removed 1gb off my apps manually.
But when I went to try and unsung my music, iTunes skipped the syncing and went straight onto trying to do a backup.
I left it backing up and it took about 8 hours, and once it got the the last little bit didn't budge at all.
So I had to cancel it.
Im annoyed. I just want this rubbish to work.

Welcome to the forum.
What you are describing is covered in [this support article|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275]
Hope that helps.

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