New Ipod Not no driver...

I bought a brand new 30gig ipod and i can't get windows to recognize it, it pops up found new hardware, and "ipod" and then again as usb mass storage device, i click next and it never finds the driver.

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Hello stinged,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
This looks like a faulty unit that could either have a bad battery or a power shortage somewhere. I would definitely recommending considering returning it for a replacement if or while there is still time.
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Thank you for your reply. It cleared up a lot of confusion for me. But I have one more question.
See, I looked both of those software applications up, and it seems those are to be installed on the windows operating system. My plan is to eventually stop using my PC and give it away to goodwill, however, for work purposes- which is freelance- I'd need to use the ipod as a nice small portable hard drive- I'm a photographer, and work with big files, so I need the larger space that a flash drive can't give me.
So, is there any type of mac formatting on the ipod that can also be read by the pc? Or is there a 3rd party software that can be installed on the ipod that will enable it to be read on the pc and mac while retaining its mac formatting?
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I recently purchased an 80gb ipod classic and when I came home to connect it to my computer, itunes opened and the following message appeared:
iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this ipod before it can be used with iTunes. You may also try disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod
I just got this, and had never even turned it on, so how can it already be corrupted? I tried disconnecting and then reconnecting the ipod, to no avail. I then restored the ipod, again still message. I even quit iTunes and then reopened it, and still it says the same thing.
Here is a screenshot of what I'm seeing:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9031/picture1ul6.png
Any idea on what's going on? This is really annoying/frustrating considering it's brand new.
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Message was edited by: Robert Young10

Thanks, I ended up getting the newest version of iTunes (I had 7, just not 7.7 or whatever that little insignificant update was) and then tried again. This time, itunes itserlf wouldn't even open because that version of itunes only worked with Mac OS X 10.4.10, and I had 10.4.4
I did a software update for my OS, which I HATE doing because of all the glitches and possible problems associated with updates but restarted the computer.
After doing Opaldad's helpful tip, I connected the ipod and restored it. After that, its working perfectly.
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and to anyone who has this in the future, make sure you have the current version of itunes and your OS
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