IPod 5G: Disk use on both Macs and PCs.

Greetings,
I have an iMac and iPod. I have selected option "Enable Disk Use" in iTunes.
When using iPod as a external disk on my iMac,all works ok.
Problem is when I plug my iPod into a PC. The PC shows an error message: "The disk in drive F is not formated. Do you want to format it now?". Is this how is supposed to be? How can I use iPod as an external disk when PC doesn't recognize it? Can someone explain this? I know that there are different formating for Macs and PCs, but since I am connecting via USB, it should not be a problem. I am connecting my memory card reader/writer (via USB) to both PCs and Mac and it works. The same is with my digital camera, works on both platforms. And what is even more strange, when I restore iPod on PC and sync in iTunes on PC, with enabling disk use, I can use it on both platforms.
Thank you in advance for replies,
JK

It is because your iPod is formatted in Mac format which Window machines can not read (regardless if you are using USB or not; it does matter).
If you reformatted the iPod for Windows, then you can use it on both systems since Macs can read Windows formatted iPod just fine.
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