Resetting and Losing everything

i lost everything on my iPod 30Gb 5th G. I did a dumb thing of re setting the iPod while still synced to my computer. I lost everything on the iPod but everything is still in my Library. The thing is, I get a message that iTunes cannot read the iPod, and that i Should download the update software. Well, I do that and then it still doesn't read it. Am I going to have to re format it?
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If you've already lost everything, just re-format it.

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