My PC isn't detecting my IPod

Hi! I'm very new to this and have no idea what I'm doing. I received an IPod for my bday from a friend with a Mac. He downloaded a bunch of songs that I do no want to loose onto the IPod. I just bought a new laptop and it won't recognize the IPod. It keeps prompting me to resotre it and therefore loose everything on the IPod. How do I keep everything that is currently on my IPod while configuring it to work with my new computer???

Most likly your going to loose everything, I'll explain.
FIrst off, in basic terms the ipod is just a "Specialized" external harddrive. On a windows PC, the harddrive is formatted into a format called FAT32, and on a MAc its HFS+.
Now on WIndows it can only read a harddrive in FAT32 or NTFS NOT HFS+ used by a mac. THe Mac tho can read all 3.
Your friend most likly used the ipod updater on his Mac to restore/format it, If he did it formatted it in HFS+ therefore its not readable on your PC and this is why it keeps asking to restore it, so it can put it in the FAT32 format.
What you have to do is find someone with a mac so you can copy the files onto it, then restore it on a pc, then connect it back to the mac and put the files back on the ipod OR search the net for some program that will run opn Windows and read a mac formated harddrive and copy all the files to your PC
Your best best is to ask the friend if he has ALL the files still on his mac. If he does, you can restore it on your PC, then give the ipod to him so he can put the songs back on it with his mac.
If he DOES NOT have all the files/songs on his mac, had him the ipod FIRST so he can copy the files onto his mac THEN restore it on a PC

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