Why has iTunes stopped recognising my iPod Classic?

I have iTunes running on a 64-bit Windows 7 system. iTunes itself works fine, but when I hook up my iPod Classic 160gb, it doesn't recognise it. I get a message saying "The software required for communicating with the iPod is not installed correctly. Please reinstall iTunes to install the iPod's software." Over the past few days, iTunes has been uninstalled and re-installed a dozen times - all to no avail. It has been uninstalled in the correct order - (iTunes; Quicktime; Apple software update; Apple mobile device support; Bonjour; Apple application support). The thing is, iTunes was recognising the iPod until last week. The only thing I can think of what started the problem was when I originally uninstalled iTunes from my D drive to my C drive. I have since taken my computer to an IT expert in town to see if there is anything wrong with the operating system, which I was assured there is not. He also cleared any remnants of iTunes / Apple software hanging over from previous installs, so I was starting with a clean slate, as it were. But the same message keeps popping up. I can see the iPod in My Computer, by the way. It's just iTunes that doesn't recognise it. Have spoken to Apple support, but to no avail. I am at a loss of what to do - can anyone please help?

Seems like iTunes doesn't like beeing reinstalled on a different drive .
Probably you have to go the hard way: Re-Install Windows 7, iTunes and everything else you need

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