Nano troubles (obviously)

Ok, here's the story.
My friend has recently ruined my ipod video, so I am now using an old nano 2nd gen, the 2 GB version.
I put one song on, and then realized that i didn't want all of the songs on there.
So instead of just hilighting and deleting them all, i returned the ipod to factory settings.
Ever since then, the ipod shows up in iTunes and device manager, but the screen just says 'charging' or shows the main menu (varies). Could someone help me or tell me whats up?

well I just kinda checked it today and it finally software reset, but after i closed iTunes. I'll leave this thread unawnsered to anyone else who gets the problem.

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