Nano not being corectly recognised in Itunes - Ghost sync !

Hi There,
Have a 4gig nano and due to computer rebuild have installed itunes 7 and i also updated the software using 7's update function....However now my nano is recognised as having 232.89 GB !!! (do i win a prize for the largest Nano yet ?)
Itunes diagnostics reveals a nano with the correct serial number, for what thats worth.
I try to sync and the software goes through the motions, the ipod under itunes has playlists full. Eject the actual nano and its blank.
Every time i plug in the nano it goes through the naming set-up.
Pluging in my nano without itunes open, starts up itunes, so windows knows there is an ipod. Under hardward devices it shows a USB Ipod as expected - However since itunes was managing things disc usage is not enabled and hence i can't find a third party software to see it either (i was desperate to load some stuff on).
I've unistalled itunes7 and re-installed. Tried itunes6 and had to delete the liberary and re-import it, but it falsely syncronised too. Tried an old software updater, but due to itunes7 software it can't be used.
Further to the above.....i've just looked at the ipod diagnostics again and it says
Connected Device Information
Store1 (F:\), iPod nano running firmware version 1.2
Serial Number: 5U5395***
Bus Speed: 61440
The last connected iPod serial number: 5U5395***.
F: is a network drive....no wonder my Nano is so huge....Any idea's ???
Ta,
Lee

it got stuck in a restore loop from all the messing arround trying to find it !
actually, if it was relentlessly giving you a "Recovery mode" message, that was probably being caused by a drive letter confusion as well. see:
"iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode - Use iTunes to restore"
... the potential symptoms of this one are so multifarious that its difficult to track down info on it in the knowledge base. (no matter what title you give a KB doc on it, it's still not obviously going to spring out as a likely suspect for some of the symptom sets that folks can get with it.)
anyhoo, glad you're up and running again.

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