Windows WILL NOT recognize my nano

My nano was working fine until I needed to recharge the battery now it alternatively displays sad icon, battery with lightning flash and apple symbol.
I have re-installed itunes and ipod updater.
I have reset my nano.
I have plugged it into every USB port I have
I have restarted my nano
I cannot restore my nano since it is NOT recognized by windows.
No starting in disk mode because I cannot do anything with my nano
I have checked for and installed windows updates.
I have looked at pages and pages of discussion threads with no avail. I really just want my nano to work again, it was great for the few weeks it worked!! Now it is a very ineffective very expensive paper weight
ANY suggestions?

I have a similar problem. In Windows my nano is nowhere to be found. And according to the latest version of itunes there's no nano connected to the computer when it clearly is. At first itunes found my nano but then something must have happened, the version I had before all started not to work properly...
I've tried unstalling and re-installing itunes and ipod updater (both from the cd and the one I downloaded from over the net). I've restarted my computer several times.
At one point I even had trouble getting itunes to work again, but at least that's fixed.
I've also reset my nano, I do'nt know how many times
The biggest problem now seems to be that every time I've launched ipod updater and connected my nano to the computer the ipod updater freezes, and the screen insists on displaying "do not disconnect".
I've not even managed to transfer music to the nano. sigh
Please, can anyone help?
I love my nano but it would be fantastic if I got it to work as well! lol
/a desperate newbie
ipod nano 4GB Windows XP

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- Window XP lags and take a long time to display the message "new hardware found"
- my ipod displays the charging symbol
- then ipod shows the screen "Do not disconnect" and it stalls on this screen
- after awhile, Windows show a "safely remove hardware" icon on the bottom right of my screen, but it describes the recognized hardware as "Apple ipod USB Device at location 0"
Note that:
- my ipod is not charged at all after all this
- itunes would not recognize my ipod
- there's not hardware icon in "My Computer" and "Device Manager"
- my computer can recognize my friend's ipod
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Maybe for that one week that you left your iPod nano idle, your iPod software automatically updated and left you with some strange conflict.
Anyhow, your symptons sound similar to some described in this article:
http://screwdave.blogspot.com/2006/05/ipod-nano-updater-3-23-really-needs.html
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