Tried to restore Ipod Classic 80gb; restore ran for 3 days but not restored

Hi there,
So i bought first ipod from one of my friends, which does have some damage to the screen on it but i have been using for a few weeks now as she had 1800 songs on it. I finally was able to purchase the usb cord and i downloaded Itunes. When i connected it to itunes it basically told me something about how the music list is part of another collection and if i wanted to add songs i would have to remove hers, which i am fine with but when i went to the summary and hit restore it popped up a little window downloaded something then states it is restoring. I left it connected to the computer and went to bed, the next night i went to my computer and it said the same thing, this went on for 3 days on the third day the i tunes was frozen and i had to close it via the task manager. i then shut down the the pc waited for the ipod to say it was ok to disconnect then removed it from the computer then rebooted the computer. i turned on the ipod and i see the menus i can play the games still but all the folders music, podcast, everything states their is no music, no videos, etc. Now every now and then it will show the apple and what seems to be a restart. I have followed the 5r's and tried to hold the menu and select key which seems to do about nothing, then i brought the ipod into disk mode and hooked it up to itunes which then tells me to reformat again. the problem is this was a working ipod with songs til i connected to itunes at my house, my friend showed me how to use itunes at her home with this same ipod and she did not have the error as soon as she plugged it into itunes.
Anyways, now i plug into itunes and it tells me to reformat thats all it will do, it does show the ipod on the left side of the menu, it does show in my computer as a drive but i can not restore and i can not sync songs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

i forgot in the settings of the ipod when you pull up the info it shows 21.7gb used 52.5 freethe slide bar is orange (other i believe)games is the only thing showing 3 items

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