Racked Screen, now iPod won't connect to anything via USB

I cracked the screen on my 5th Gen iPod Classic. The LCD is clearly cracked. I can attempt to restart the iPod and all that will happen is that the dpsplay will light up white and just hang.
I have tried connecting it to my PC and it will not detect anything is there, or in my cars USB facility.
Will replacing the screen allow the iPod to be used again, or does it suggest that more has been damaged? I don't want to buy a replacment LCD if its unlikley to sort out the problem.
Thanks

A new update on this situation, while just playing around with the iPod, I attempted "slaving" in some componentes of my other iPod, without dissmanteling it too far. So I now know that the Hard Drive is fine in it, as it booted up fine when fitted to the other iPod. I have attempted connecting it to the computer again. After along time of it hanging, I tunes has started up and given me the folowing error message relating to the iPod.
"+iTunes had 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+"
Also the screen for a connected iPod was present, showing serial number, software version, name and capacity. The name field displayed "iPod" however the device has a different name, and capacity was n/a.
I have reconnected the iPod as iTunes has recomemded, however as I write this post its looking like I may see the same outcome again! How does one "restore" the iPod? I am starting to think that more could be up with it, than the screen. Just as PT had suggested.
Does anyone have any further thoughts on this?
Matt

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