IPod Mini was formatted as "Mac," trying to get it working on PC w Windows

Against my advice, my daughter just purchased a PC. It's an +HP Acer+, w +Windows Vista+.
Her iPod Mini was *originally formatted* on my computer, an iMac, and all of her iTunes were loaded from this computer.
However, she tried to get it formatted on her new PC. When she did ...from the installation disk that came w her new iPod Mini, and which said it could be formatted for PC and gave the steps to do so...it froze somewhere in the formatting process.
Her computer froze and she could not turn it off. I told her to unplug from the wall outlet and re-boot. It worked and everything on the computer seems to be working.
However, all of her tunes on her iPod are gone. (Quite a few, in the hundreds.)
It would appear that the problem lies in trying to format and transfer tunes that originally came from a Mac-formatted iPod and tunes that came in from Mac iTunes.
But that's just conjecture. I don't know what the problem is.
Any thoughts? Advice?
Thanks in advance

Few points :-
1. If you format an iPod (Restore to factory setting), it will erase all data on the iPod
2. You should always go for iTunes to Restore the iPod instead of using the old version iPod updater.
Try to download and install the latest version of Tunes and use to restore the iPod again
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
3. After finishing the Restore, your iPod (formatted now on a PC) will still able to read by your iMac (but not the other way round), do you update with your iMac (transfer back on the songs to the iPod).
4. Installa 3rd party software on your PC, use it to copy the music from the iPod to the iTunes on the PC. Please do a Google search for the software, there are plenty

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