IPod restored on Windows won't mount or Restore on Mac...

Hi all...
Trying to help a friend who replaced his hard drive in his 3rd gen iPod. After changing the drive, his Mac wouldn't recognize and restore (using latest iPod Updater). So I hooked it up to a PC (via USB), and ran the Updater there; worked fine, iPod restarted normally.
Tried to then connect that iPod to a Mac (via Firewire), but wouldn't show in iTunes, wouldn't mount on desktop.
Tried again to run the Mac iPod Updater, which saw the iPod, picked Restore, it started... but then gave a message about a "file is open on iPod", and quit. There are no files open on the iPod.
Tried using Disk Utility, which sees the drive as a FAT32 drive, to reformat it as HFS, but begins to do that but gets hung up.
Any suggestions as to how to get an iPod which works fine with a PC to sync back to the Mac it was originally used with?
thanks

Yeah, I did have the same experience, and lucky that I managed to solve it. I remember that I put my iPod in Disk Mode and pluged it with my Mac, opened the disk utility, but went to Tab "Partition" and clicked Delete, went back to "Erase" and clicked Erase. Once it had completed, opened the iPod updater and clicked "Restore". If you cant solve it this way, go back to your PC and do a format instead of Restore. It really does not matter the the Format get completed or not, as when you plug it (even better - without an iPod software) with a computer (in disk mode), it will recognize it as an external disk and ask you whether you want to format it then do a Restore and you will put it back to life. Bear in mind that the problem is the computer recognizes it as an iPod but does not allow you to do a Restore.

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