Itunes shows only 4gb free for my 8gb touch

My 4th generation ipod touch 8 gb shows only 4gb as total size in itunes. I had recently restored the os to 4.3.3, I also uninstalled all apple products as mentioned in the complete uninstallation guide but the issue still persists. I suspect its the 64 bit itunes issue. For once I could play few songs that were loaded by the service center guys(I had left the device for diagonistics, they say its all right) but after that itunes could never read my ipod. All backup sessions failed. I'm also in doubt about the hardware(ipod) itself.
I cannot buy a mac just to sync my ipod, please anyone suggest something that I can and should do. I'm really bugged up. All contents in the ipod is lost now and even the downloaded apps donot show up in itunes as I had done all possible sort of cleanup.
Dell XPS, windows 7 home premium 64 bit.

With the iPod connected to your computer. go to the Summary pane for your iPod and list the storage used for the different categories. The "other" should be less than 0.25 GB but can be very large and to reduce it you need to restore your iPod to factory defaults/new iPod.

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Recently connected mu iPod Touch 8GB - there is NOTHING on there as far as Music/Movies/TV Shows goes yet it shows 3.28GB used as OTHER.... yet i cannot find this 'OTHER'!
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