Nano not being recognised by pc or i-tunes

Try this from Kznano in another thread. I had tried countless ways to get my Nano to be recognised after updating to get Nike+ sensor to work. This worked in about 5mins.
Here is what I did folks after the 2006-06-28 updater did a number on two nanos.
I reformatted iPOD drive to FAT32 and then used the 2006-06-28 updater to restore. You lose all your data from the iPOD so have to reload.
Steps that I followed to fix:
1. Connect your iPOD and put into disk mode (hold down menu and select (center) until apple logo appears, then immediately hold down select(center)and play/pause until iPOD enters disk mode)
2. Find out what drive your iPOD is on by looking in My Computer (e.g. E:, G: or I:)
3. Go to start menu --> run
4. Enter cmd and select'OK'
5. Black dos box comes up
6. type "format I: /FS:FAT32 /Q (enter)"
(I: is the drive name - change to your drive if different)
7. type enter when it asks for the disk.
8. Leave disk label blank. (just hit enter when prompted)
9. After finish formatting use system tray to safely remove hardware from the drive.
10. Restart computer
11. Launch ipod updater
12. connect ipod
13. After recognizes iPOD - select restore
14. Let it complete restore successful - iPod may still show the do not disconnect
15. Disconnect ipod (again using system tray)
16. Restart computer
17. Launch iTunes
18. Connect iPOD should be recognized by iTUNES (FINALLY!!)
If not try uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes - then connect iPOD
Windows XP

My mini just started working, I'm not sure how though. I had been tryin to reset it for a while, among many other things,(holding menu and select down for 6 to 10 seconds) but it was not working. I tried restoring, I don't think I did it and I had been trying to do updates for a while. The last thing I did was go to the "/support/ipod" site and stumbled into the software update site and followed the instructions as best I could. The I connected the ipod and waited for a few seconds, then I held held menu and select down and the menu came up! I was amazed! I hope this may help someone, I have got to go to sleep now.

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