Ipod with Identity Crisis

I have a 60gb ipod with colour display, which I think is fourth gen. Recently i had problems with it. It was getting stuck on the apple icon at start up. I would turn it on, and then it would stay on the apple icon no matter what i did. I had to drain the battery to get it going again. this happened a few times, and each time i restored it after drainage. I could hear the hd spinning when it was stuck on the icon. Eventually i restored it and it hasnt stuck since.
But since then whenever the ipod shows in itunes, or in windows, or even in the about section in settings on the actual ipod it says it only has 16gb worth of capacity!!! Can anybody help me with this problem? The ipod is working fine otherwise, its just now I only have a quarter of the capacity i had before. I have already tried renaming the drive.
Thanks for your help

If your iPod is recognized in "my computer", changing the drive letter can sometimes resolve this issue.
Click on control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management/right click on the iPod to re-assign the drive letter.
Choose something lower down the alphabet, say 'M' or something similar.
The iPod can be confused by any other storage devices assigned a similar drive letter even though they may not connected at the same time.
If the device manager is empty, see this: iPod not appearing in Windows device manager.

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