Could not restore iPod

I bought classic iPod 80GB 3 yrs ago. I had it synced to my iMac. Then I gave it to my son who has a new PC. He was able to sync it download music and then it was no longer recognized when he would plug it in. I took it back and tried restoring it to my iMac. It was going along fine until error code Ipod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1429). Is this something that I can fix or even Apple? Thanks. Reverie

I would try putting it in disk mode and formating it with Disk Utility.
What should happen after that is iTunes will offer to restore the software on the iPod.
Be aware that you will be starting from scratch once you format the iPod.

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