Ipod Nano Being recognized as a removable disk on Laptop.

Hello, i am currently downloading music for a freind on their new Ipod Nano (7th Gen). They did not set up the ipod, as i took it home to put music on it right as they opened it and asked me to. I set it up on my Mac (unfortuantly) and then proceded to connect it to my library on my Laptop (PC) but when i did, it read the Ipod as a removable disc, and not an ipod. Itunes does not recognize it in any way either. It only shows up as a removable disc under My Computer.I then found out that i need to uninstall the mac version of the software from my ipod and reinstall the PC version of the software on it so it is compatable for my laptop, but whenever i try to format, or restore the ipod, it just goes into disk mode and still wont show up on my computer as anything but a removable disc.I tried putting music on it from windows media player but then it said i needed to reformat it, so i went ahead and formated the ipod. After doing so, i was able to put music on it from my documents, but i wasnt able to operate the ipod in any way as it had reverted into Disk Mode as a result of the formatting. Unfortuantly, my ipod was still not showing up in itunes so i could install the software to make the ipod compattable with my laptop. Please help!!! This has been haunting me for the past month and a half, any help will be appreciated! Thank you.

Are you using iTunes 7? There are issues with iPod sync on some Windows boxes. You might wish to regress to iTunes 6.0.5.
See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643810&tstart=0
for more info

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