Going from Windows to Mac with iPod.

Hiya.
I have an iPod Nano (2nd generation), which I intially installed on a PC with Windows. I've just recently got a MacBook and I want to use my iPod with the MacBook instead. The only problem is that the iPod seems to be configurated to Windows so it won't allow me to update the iPod. Does anyone know how to change this so that it's configurated to Mac?
Thanks in advance,
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