Format ipod to use in windows, from a mac formatted ipod.

Hi,
my ipod is mac formatted, i need to chage it to windows format. I've already formatted it several times and i didn't find a way to put it in windows format using itunes. What do I have to do?
thanks in advance.
(sorry for my bad english)
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
mac mini 1,66 rev. A Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Except for the iPod shuffle, you cannot restore an iPod to the PC format from any Mac OS X application while retaining the capability to use that iPod as a music player. You can use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to reformat it as MS-DOS, but it will only work as an external flash disk until it is restored.
You need to either restore the iPod on a PC, use the Windows version of iTunes in either Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop to restore it, or use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to format it, which will cause it to only function as a flash disk.
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