IPod no longer recognised on windows in disk mode

When I first got my 3th gen ipod I had a pc. Everything was fine. Then at the beginning of last year I converted to mac
I'm currently studying and last year I used it as a storage for all my work and it was configured to my mac but the disk use quite happily went between both my mac at home and the PC at TAFE. Recently I bought songs of itunes and although I had the latest update it would say I needed the update to put them on the ipod. So I did a system restore to see if this would resolve the problem.
It resolved the problem of those songs playing my ipod, but now anytime I connect it to a pc it wont open it up, just asks to format it. And if I do so, I can't connect it to my itunes(and my music) on my mac.
I came to support to find out how to fix it, but apparently you can't do what I've been doing for a whole year. I really need disk storage which goes between both platforms. Can anyone help me or do I have to buy a flash drive
G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

"It resolved the problem of those songs playing my ipod, but now anytime I connect it to a pc it wont open it up, just asks to format it."
That's because Windows cannot read Mac formatted iPods.
Probably the easiest way to use an iPod on both Mac and Windows computers is to format the iPod (using iPod Updater) using the PC. This will force your iPod to use the Windows file system (FAT32) which both the Mac and PC can read from and write to without the help of additional software. Of course then all your software updates for the iPod will have to be done on Windows.

If you need to use a Mac (HFS+) formatted iPod on a Windows PC, you'll need to install some 3rd party software such as XPlay 2.0 (which you can get from MediaFour Software). This will enable your Windows PC to read a Mac-formatted iPod.

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