Unrecognised Ipod Touch

I just bought my Ipod Touch 4th Generation today, went to a friends place and proceeded to update Itunes and register the product with Apple. All goes good, the computer has no issues with the Ipod, I never synced with his media library and disconnected the device safely and proceeded home later.
I arrive home, update Itunes to the newest version, plug in my usb connecter and plug my ipod in... nothing. I went through the entire support page of apple to good end to try to make my computer find it.
Things tried so far.
- exit/load up itunes while device is plugged in.
- Restart computer while device is plugged in and not plugged in.
- Stop the "Apple Mobile Device" in the admin tools/services, then start it.
- Turn off the ipod while plugged in, then start it up.
- Turn off the ipod, then plug in, then start it up.
- Check the Universal Serial Bus Controllers in the Device Manager for either the apple usb device or mass storage device (Which has none). Attempt to update the hardware which finds everything up to date.
- Use different Ipod usb connecter.
- Use different computer in Windows Vista (My computer is Windows 7 -64bit)
- Plug Ipod in in Recovery mode.
- Get latest computer drivers.
I think I did minor variations of some of those ideas listed. So far no Luck. Any Ideas?

-I've tried all the USB ports switching them with a usb keyboard and mouse around. All of them work.
-The ipod will not charge even when plugged in.
-I have not had the opportunity to go back to my friends house to try his computer.
As far as options go, I will try my friends place if it works,there must be some issues with my computer, if it doesn't I think the connection in the bottom of the ipod might be damage, although that seems unlikely.
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