IPod repair routines for Windows platform?

iPod harddrive volumes running on Mac platform can be "repaired" using Disk Utility ( or Third Party apps) to, sometimes, avert the need to fully restore (and thereby erasing) an iPod to healthy functioning.
Is there such an application or system routine to tune up flash-drive based iPods
running on Windows platform ( or Mac for that matter)?
Thanks in advance for any comments.

sorry, I posted this to the wrong discussion but I will leave it here so as to not double post.
Thanks.

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