Use as disk drive?

Is there a way to use the itouch as disk drive? My old ipod would show up as a drive in My Computer but this one doesn't.
I have it set to manually sync so I can use it on my 2 home computers and my work computer. I've been going back and forth between the two work home computers fine, but when I connected it to my work computer all of a sudden my music is gone! It's like it's still there, just can't be accessed b/c iTunes shows 9.5 gb of "other" which is the amount of music I had.
I have a program called Sharepod that I used on my old ipod to transfer music from the ipod to the computer, and can also recover "lost" files, but b/c my ipod isn't showing up as a disk drive, sharepod can't find it either.
The old ipods had an option iTunes to "use as a disk drive" but that's not an option with this one...

As for using it as a disc drive, I stopped trying, I didn't use my old one that way much anyway.
As for the music disappearing and having the same amount of "other", this happened to me too one time. I use a program (can't remember the name of it off the top of my head) that allows you to view the contents of your ipod (like viewing it as a hard drive) and the files are all still there (obviously, since there's that same amount of memory listed as "other"). I was able to copy the music to my computer then back onto the ipod. I lost my playlists and play-counts unfortunately, but at least I was able to retrieve all my music.

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ron
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