same thing happened to me this morning, i let it charge overnight, then i push play on it this morning and it freezes, i reset it, but that doesnt work, so i then plug it into my computer to go into itunes, there it tells me my ipod is corrupted and it will not let me restore it to factory settings in there because it does not recognize the ipod, please someone help me that has had this problem. i read in a different forum that if it says that it is corrupted that it is gone forever.... someone please help