Mac iPod on Windows...

I'm helping a friend get videos on his iPod. So, he gave me his ipod to deal with everything. However, he uses a Mac, so its formatted to a mac, and I use a windows PC. It asks me if I want to go and reformat the ipod to windows. Will this reformatting delete everything off the ipod?
~Kourtney~

Yes - reformatting it under Windows will erase everything. Windows can not read Mac formated drives, unlike Mac which can read both.
I use MacDrive from Mediafour.com on my Window's PC in order to read Mac formated drives, ie Ipod. There is a trial version.
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