HT1329 Use of ipod as external drive, help!!!

I got a new PC & used my ipod (after realising you could do this and there was space on my ipod) as a hard drive to transfer my itunes library to my new PC. It was far from straight-forward and I had to buy two lots of software to help me do this, as my library had loads of my own music in it (i.e. not just what was bought from itunes store). This seems to have worked now, and after almost 2 days of trying things out my itunes on my new PC is syncing with my ipod and transferred music library (I hope!). Only thing is, I now have half my ipod capacity as 'other' and I can't get rid of it! A third of it is, I think, my original files, and I have half of it as yellow 'other' (is this my library which I had backed up inot my ipod to use as an external drive to transfer??) and I want to delete it to get my space back, what can I do?

So restore the iPod as new or from a backup, then sync what you want to the device.

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