My 80GB Ipod classic won't respond to anything

My Ipod has worked fine until now. The other day I plugged it into my laptop to charge and the screen showed up dim, gray, and with an old fashioned computer format font. It has a black caution symbol blinking and says "Do not Disconnect." It stayed like this for hours, so I disconnected it. When I did, it siad "OK to disconnect" and a check mark appeared in the place of the caution mark. However, the screen continues to say this and will not respond to any buttons I push or if I flip the "hold" switch. Please help, I need my music!

Your iPod is in DiskMode.
Disconnect the iPod from your PC.
To get it back to normal iPod player mode, just reset it, by
1  Press the Menu and Center button for 10 secs or till the Apple logo comes On.
2. press the center button when the Welcome screen comes ON.
That should bring your iPod to normal mode.

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