My IPod!!!! :(

[NickPike]

Basically my ipods pretty messed up. What i did was open the ipod through mycomputer (windows XP) and cut the folder that contains all my music and pasted it into mydocuments so i had full amount of memory on my ipod to use it as a memory device. I gave it to my friend to put some videos into my ipod again through mycomputer. He didnt allow the ipod to sync on his itunes. Now i have it back i plugged it into my pc and my itunes couldnt pick it up and neither can mycomputer. I left it plugged in and restarted my pc when it booted up i opened itunes and it was sort of froze, after leaving it for a minute or two my ipod cam e up on itunes but it said it was corrupt. I ran the restore over night as it was taking along time and when i cam back this morning it was still doing it! Whats wrong with my ipod?! is there any other way to system reset it? do you think my mate should have synced it with his pc? PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!

BTW its a new nano 4th gen (ithink it is) the newest ones

 

[JeffCGD]

To do what you are trying to do, you need to not try and use it like a Windows PC, because it isn't one.

To get your iPod running again, do a full restore, which should completely reset it to factory fresh conditions. Once this has happened DO NOT sync it. Look for the option on the connected iPod that says something along the lines of "Manually manage music and videos on this device". This option allows you to connect it to another PC to manually add content from another users' library.