Ipod mini for mac to pc

hello everybody i apology in advance for my question but ive read through the forum and i cant find an answer.
i have ipod mini for mac and im going to give it as a present to my cousin, now she has a pc and i dont know if it will work..can anybody tell me?
thanks

I'm not really sure why they asked you that question really.
There's a difference in file systems between Mac and PC and Windows cannot read the Mac system, hence the need to reformat it.
When the mini was first realeased it could be that iPods were pre formatted for each system (I can't really remember), so that's why they asked you.
Nowadays, they're all Windows formatted out of the box.

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