Change "Format" on Ipod & keeping charge

Years later a friend of mine finally returned my ipod to me. It's one of the first video ipods, 30GB. My friend overwrote everything from my name to the entire music library so I just reset it completely. I noticed that in the summary tab it says "format = Windows". I have a Mac. Can I reset this information? Do I need to restore the ipod again? Does it matter at all?
Also the ipod does not keep charge well. It switches from a 3/4 full battery indicator to empty and off in seconds. What's going on there?
Thanks!

Hello Christina D,
I noticed that in the summary tab it says "format = Windows". I have a Mac. Can I reset this information? Do I need to restore the ipod again? Does it matter at all?
You don't necessarily need to change the format to Mac because your Mac can read and write to a Windows formatted iPod just fine, but you certainly can do so anyways using these instructions. Wouldn't hurt anything.
http://b-rockprogramming.blogspot.com/p/ipoditunes-tutorials-and.html
Also the ipod does not keep charge well. It switches from a 3/4 full battery indicator to empty and off in seconds. What's going on there?
Considering it's a 30 GB iPod Video, it has been out for quite some time and used for several years, so it's likely the battery is reaching the end of its life and will need to be replaced at sometime in the very near future.
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Your iPod warranty is expired
You don’t want to pay any service charges
You are prepared to buy a new one
You can’t accept the re-sell value of your broken iPod
Rather than leave your iPod as paper-weight or throw it away.
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Warning !!!! – It may or may not manage to solve your problem, and with a risk that you may further damage your iPod, which end up as an expensive paper weight or you need to pay more higher repairing cost. Therefore, please re-consider again whether you want to try the next level
Last Resort Level
1. . Disconnecting the Hard Drive and battery inside the iPod – Warning !! Your iPod warranty will be waived once you open the iPod.
In Hong Kong there are some electronic shops offering an iPod service for Sad iPod, the first thing they do is to open up the iPod’s case and disconnecting the battery and the Hard Drive from the main board of the iPod. Wait for 5-10 minutes and reconnecting them back. The reason behind which I can think of is to do a fully reset of a processor of the iPod. In case you want do it itself and you believe that you are good on fixing the electronics devices and have experience to deal with small bits of electronic parts, then you can read the following of how to open the iPod case for battery and HDD replacement (with Quicktimes)
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2.Press the reset button on the Hard Drive inside the iPod – Suggestion from Kill8joy
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2438774#2438774
Have I tried these myself? No, I am afraid to do it myself as I am squeamish about tinkering inside electronic devices, I have few experiences that either I broke the parts (which are normally tiny or fragile) or failed to put the parts back to the main case. Therefore, I agree with suggestion to have it fixed by a Pro.
2. Do a search on Google and some topics on this discussion forum about “Sad iPod”
Exclamation point and folder and nothing else
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Quote “This has been discussed numerous times as a 'fix'. It does work, at least for a while. In fact I remember using the same basic trick to revive Seagate and Quantam drives back in the mid to late 1980's. Why these tiny hard drives go bad I don't know - could be the actuator gets stuck in place or misaligned. Could be the platter gets stuck or the motor gets stuck. 'Stiction' was a problem for drives back in the 80's. Unfortunately the fix can cause damage to the platter so we temporarily fix one problem by creating another. But I know of two instances where a little slap onto the table revived the iPods and they are still worked a year or more later.”UnQuote

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