Experience Formatting Gen5 Ipod Hard Disk with Fat 32?

Does anyone have any experience formatting a Gen 5 60gb for Windows hard disk with Fat32? I was thinking of doing this and then restoring from itunes 7.5 to start all over. If so, how did you do it? Thanks in advance. Running Win XP w/SP2

i reformatted my daughter's 5th gen. 30Gig thru 'my computer' but itunes still wont recognize it so i can't use the RESTORE on it. anyway, plug the usb in your ipod and wait for 'my computer' to recognize it then right click on it and and choose format.

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