Windows Reformatted My iPod Hard Disk

My husband was reformatting a cd, which was in the e drive. My iPod was connected at the same time. It appears that Windows reformatted both the cd in the e drive and the iPod hard disk at the same time. My iPod was working before my husband reformatted the cd, but after windows said it completed formatting the cd, he noticed the ipod no longer indicated it was charging. He immediately checked the iPod and it did not work at all. My iPod will not power up in any fashion, is not recogized by Windows, and is not in the source list in iTunes as there is no source list in iTunes. I have tried all the basis restart tips available through the online tutorials but none have worked.

Did you have any luck checking for bad sectors? Restoring the iPod may not deal with certain disk errors which should be addressed via regular disk utilities.
Hold Menu+Select for about 6 seconds until it resets, then hold Menu+Play as soon as the Apple logo appears, again for about 6 seconds to put the machine in disk mode. Connect to your computer, closing iTunes if it opens. Browse *My Computer* and right-click on the drive for the iPod, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors*. Click Start. Mac users should run *Disk Utility / Repair Disk* for the equivalent process. This should find and correct any errors in the logical & physical structures of your iPod's hard drive. Once these have been fixed you can reset the iPod (hold Menu+Select ) and should stand a better chance of a successful restore.
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