My Ipod Nano won't show any of my music. HELP!

But the music shows up on itunes. My ipod was completley out of charge then when I plugged it in I noticed it. I can't sync it again because I have music that isn't on the Itunes and cannot be relplaced. Help!

Thanks for the suggestion - I followed the steps, er,
step by step but the problem persists, that is, the
iPod simply does not show up in My Computer... Any
other suggestions?
Thanks
I had the problem on a new Nano just purchased
yesterday.
I opened itunes and clicked on "Help" then " run
diagnostics" then on "ipod diagnostics" and
"next".
Under "ipod connection status" I clicked " help"
and
followed the instructions for " Restart the Ipod
service"
I needed to install a driver. And it worked. Now
the
ipod show in windows and in itunes.
Dell Dimension DIM3000
Windows XP
Hi again rider14.4 I just noticed in your post that you mentioned you had to install a driver, how did you find out that you needed to do that? And where did you download the driver from? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks. Harvey
Dell Dimension DIM3000 Windows XP

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