Very low battery/restoring

Okay, so I got my 5th generation iPod video for Christmas 2 years ago. It has worked fine up until the last couple of months. I turn my iPod on, and a sad iPod icon is displayed. I checked on apple's support website, thinking that this was a problem that could be fixed there. I followed the instructions trying to force my iPod into disk mode(which supposedely indicates that my problem is not a hardware problem)..and it worked. So then it says to restore your iPod. So I forced iPod into disk mode, plugged it up to the computer and pulled up iTunes. Then itunes says that it detects a "corrupted" iPod and has to restore. So i clicked ok. After about 2 minutes, iPod is no longer recognized on the computer, but iTunes is still trying to restore. iPod just keeps resetting itself and occiasionally displays the "very low battery" screen. Eventually, iTunes just freezes up the whole computer. Any ideas on how to fix this? How can iPod stay connected(recognized) to the computer long enough to restore?

I fyou have synced this once with iTunes, it would already been backed up. But make sure to double check this first.

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