#iPod nano 3rd gen refusing to work on my computer

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golden trench
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I recently bought a bunch of nanos for dirt cheap, and while most of them were trash I thought one perfectly worked except for a slightly broken screen. Battery isn't swollen and lasts quite a lot, audio works just fine, lock doesn't have any issues, blah blah blah. However, when I went ahead and plugged it into my laptop, I got a popup saying it was corrupted or something among the lines. I just thought it was thrashed like the others and kinda forgot about it until a few days ago, when I plugged all of them again out of pity. To my surprise, the iPod actually recognized it was plugged in, but when I tried opening iTunes it just wouldn't open until I plugged off the iPod. I tried having iTunes opened beforehand, but it would just freeze until i plugged it off again. Just for shits and giggles, I tried checking if I could at the very least see the iPod through the file manager, but it would freeze too until I unplugged the iPod. (It also made my external drive once but that's probably on me lmao)

Is there literally anything I can do? I could probably use another computer or even borrow an old Mac Book from a friend but I don't really think that would solve the issue. Just in case, I'm running Windows 11 and the 3rd gen is an 8gb one, and this hasn't happened ever with any of the other faulty nanos or my main iPod.

glacial thicket
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I'd try to put it in some kind of disc-mode or sth like this to recover it and try again.

tawny grove
golden trench
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good to know, i didn't even consider that for a second lmaoo, probably because it actually has plenty of songs and seem to play just fine. i did eventually try plugging it into a really old macbook (only mac i can use without getting a new one, can't even install the latest itunes version but oh well) and it managed to read it just fine, but it still asked me to update itunes to a newer version to search for updates( (or something like that, im not good with macs lol), so i still had a little bit of hope it wasn't a drive problem. anyways, thanks for the help! ill try fixing it eventually when i have some spare time so fingers crossed hahah