2 ipods, already with different music

If I have an ipod mini, full of my own music and my brother gave me his old large ipod, full of different music, is there a way for me to load my music from my computer onto his ipod? How do I register his ipod on my computer? I created a new user but the computer didn't recognize his ipod. Thank you.
  Windows XP  

You will have to restore the iPod. To do this you will download the latest iPOd updater (Version 03-23-2006) here http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
RSTORE WIPES THE IPOD CLEAN!! If you can not use the updater on the ipod due to the ipod "Freezing" the PC, DIsconnect the ipod safly from the PC and put it into "Manual disk mode" then plug it back in and try again. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651

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