Any way to restore PC iPod music using a Mac w/o reformatting?

I had an iPod using itunes from a PC. The PC died last year, so it has been over a year since I used my iPod. Prior to the PC dying, the iPod had all its music. Although I have the music files stored on an MyBook external drive, the PC is dead and gone so I can't restore the files from the computer.
I now use a Mac, so I can't use the iPod on my Mac without it getting reformatted. Any suggestions or software I could use on a Mac that could restore files to a Windows-based iPod?
I have an iPod A1040, 40GB from 2004. I believe the software version on it is version 2.3.

See my reply to your post in the iPod Classic forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3322999
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