Ipod rocongnised by windows but needs Formatting??

ok, i have my friends ipod nano... and i have windows XP home... she has about 70 songs and when you click on Settings>about it is not written: Fromat windows as MY ipod video does... she also has ipod version 1.0 so when i plug it to my computer... and i open itunes it says something like... your software is not up to date would you like to update it.. then it opens the updater 1.1.1 and where it is usually written "update" is like lightened and i can't click on it the only thing thet appears is.. "Restore" and i don't want to restore it becuz it willl erase all the songs...

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