ITunes no longer recognises my iPod

Question

when i connect my iPod to my laptop with the USB cable, my iPod displays the charging screen, but iTunes doesn't put my iPod onto the "Devices" list, so i cannot sync my music. There is a connection between my laptop and iPod, but not between my iTunes and iPod. I would appreciate any help to solve this problem. Thank you.

Answer 1

I just had an interesting experience!!!
I looked in the root of the Ipod and found a file called "BOOTEX.LOG" which was created at some time when apparently my windows tried to check the ipod as a disk volume, like below:
Checking file system on F:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 9356-5ED8
Unrecoverable error in folder \iPod_Control\Music\F05.
Convert folder to file (Y/N)? Yes
The \iPod_Control\Music\F04\LPAK.mp3 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \iPod_Control\Music\F04\LPAK.mp3 entry is not valid.
The \iPod_Control\Music\F03\PCST.mp3 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \iPod_Control\Music\F03\PCST.mp3 entry is not valid.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 13459 corrected.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? Yes
678690816 bytes in 189 recovered files.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
3946135552 bytes total disk space.
180224 bytes in 11 hidden files.
114688 bytes in 7 folders.
3892215808 bytes in 1082 files.
53608448 bytes available on disk.
16384 bytes in each allocation unit.
240853 total allocation units on disk.
3272 allocation units available on disk.
I removed the files
LPAK.mp3 and
PCST.mp3 as well as
the bad directory \iPod_Control\Music\F05
the file "bootex.log" as shwon above and then... My Ipod was recognised after more than one year of being out!
Hope this helps well for others too!