Windows iTunes won't talk to iPod? Solved (for me, anyway).

Okay so, my 60gb iPod Photo died within warranty and Apple replaced it (a surprisingly smooth process). The replacement would not talk to iTunes for Windows. Windows would recognize it as an iPod and give it a drive letter, but it could not actually open it. iTunes would tell me it needed to be reformatted. I did so with the latest Updater, and the same thing would happen.
Each step in the above would also take a very long time, like ten minutes for the Updater to see the iPod.
I took it to an Apple retailer, where they formatted it for Mac and it fired right up, synchronized just fine. So it wasn't hardware.
Scoured the kb and discussions, found many solutions, none helped.
Thinking file systems, I put it on a Mac (where everything worked perfectly again) and enabled disk use so I could run the Mac's Disk Utility. It reported nothing amiss. I opened iTunes (still on the Mac) to turn off disk use, but the Mac now could not read the iPod and told me I needed to reformat it.
I immediately unplugged it and took it to my PC. I ran the Updater there (it saw the iPod in just a few seconds) and reformatted for Windows.
Voila. Everything worked perfectly. The long nightmare has ended.
iPod Photo Windows XP Pro

Thank you, Michael for your sharing, yeah, I discovered this too
"Windows users having trouble with their iPods should locate a Mac user. In many cases when an iPod won't show up on a PC that it will show up on the Mac. Then it can be restored. When the PC user returns to his computer the iPod will be recognized by the PC, reformatted for the PC, and usable again. By the way, it works in reverse too. A Mac user often can get his iPod back by connecting it to a PC and restoring it.
Tips
a. It does not matter whether the format is completed or not, the key is to erase (or partly) the corrupted firmware files on the Hard Drive of the iPod. After that, when the iPod re-connected with a computer, it will be recognized as an fresh external hard drive, it will show up on the iPod updater.
b. It is not a difficult issue for a Mac user to find a window base computer, for a PC user, if they can’t find any Mac user, they can go to a nearest Apple Shop for a favor.
c. You may need to switch around the PC and Mac, try to do several attempts between “Format” and “Restore”

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