My grandson loaded music to my Ipod nano with his Mac computer.  Now I'm trying to add music and I have a windows based computer.  Itunes is asking me to reformat my Ipod for windows.  Will that erase my music already added?

My grandson loaded music to my Ipod nano with his Mac computer.  Now I'm trying to add music and I have a windows based computer.  Itunes is asking me to reformat my Ipod for windows.  Will that erase my music already added?

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