IPod working simultaneously with windows and mac

Isn't there any way to get an iPod (from a mac) to work with windows without having to format the iPod? It's sad because I always had macs, and I have one at home- source of my iPod, and I work with windows during the day and all I wanted was to ear my music at the office...
Hope there is a solution for this one without erasing my iPod...
Regardzzz
CV

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iPod is compatible either with Macs and PCs, but you can choose only one... or working in several PCs, or working in several Macs...

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IPod formatting with windows and mac

alright fellas,
I have a problem! i recently got a mac and i already had a nano, not the ones with the video; the long thin one, with photos (i think its a 3rd generation).
So i do alot of transfering files between a windows computer and mac, my main computer is a mac but everywhere else i use pc's. i have got the problem that i want to be able to sync my iPod on my mac but use it to take my files into uni, so it needs to work with pc's
at the moment its formatted to mac so it doesent show up when its connected to a pc
if i format it on a pc then when i reconnect it ill just have to format it again to sync with my library? arghhhh!
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*if i format it on a pc then when i reconnect it ill just have to format it again to sync with my library? arghhhh!*
Macs can read Windows formatting so you should have no problem connecting your iPod to your Mac once it's been restored and reformatted on a PC. One proviso is that up until now Apple has only fully supported using the iPod shuffle in FAT32 format on Mac (unless the range has been expanded to include the iPhone and the iPod Touch which I've no experience of). What this means effectively is that if you need to apply a firmware update for your iPod and you wanted to maintain the Windows format you would have to do it on a PC. If you were to try and update a Windows based iPod on a Mac it would be restored and reformatted to the Mac file system and have the Mac firmware installed.
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