Can I use my iPod on the pc at work?

Hi,
I've just received my 5G black 30gb iPod and one of the things I was keen to do was to use it in disk mode. I have an iMac at home and a pc at work and I've read that I can't use the iPod on the windows machine, however I'm sure there must be a workaround. I only want to use it for it's storage facility. I don't want to integrate with itunes, play music, download music or any of that. I just want to use it as a portable hard disk for transferring documents from work to home.
How can I do this? Is it possible?
Thanks in advance
Lee

Hello Lee.
An iPod is configured for either Mac or PC which can be changed from one to the other but using the iPod for Mac on a PC, or using the iPod for Windows on a Mac, is not supported by Apple. FAT32 is the format used by Windows, and while some FAT32 iPod models may work with your Mac, Apple only supports using the iPod shuffle in FAT32 format on Mac.
So to use it with iTunes on your Mac and for disk mode only on your PC to save/transfer files will not work.

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