Format the iPod / Remove Write Protect

Hey folks, really need some help !

My iPod (5G) suddently crashed - it was stuck in reset and when it stopped it had appearently

deleted all the music. Still it says that the iPod is full. The files is still there though,

as i used a program to recover the files. Not it's only a matter of formatting the iPod so I

can resync it, but windows won't let me format it.

When I try to open the disc windows ask me to format it (which can't be done). Afterwards it says

that windows can't access the disc due to Cyclic Redundancy Checkout.

iPod is recognized by windows, but only as 'removable disc'. It's not recognized by itunes.

Computer Management says the disc is RAW instead of FAT or NTFS.

I tried with HP USB Storage Format tool, but I get the message: "Device media is write-protected". I tried

to remove the writeprotect by make a regedit in the StorageDevicePolicies, but that made no difference.

I tried to set iPod into disc mode, no difference.

I tried to format it with fat32format in commandoprompt, but I get the same message about Cyclic Redundancy Checkout.

So I am asking, if there is a way to get around the so-called write protect (aside from the regedit) so I can

format the iPod with the HP USB tool, or another way I can overrule and format the thing ?

Hope to hear something. I have been spending a couple of days troubleshooting with no results so far.

-alfred