Switching back to windows

First off, I'm not sure if this belongs in the right section...
Anyway, my dad had to take the mac to his office and bought a windows for regular use at home because we weren't fully happy with a mac. Before deleting the files on the mac, i saved them to my 30gb ipod video. Now, when I try to access these files, it tells me that my ipod is formatted for mac and must be formatted for windows. Will this delete the files on my ipod? If so, how can I get my files/music off without anything being deleted?

Formatting will make it next to impossible to access your files. The iPod Discussions probably have some ideas.
Some thoughts on putting ipod into data mode is http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
You realize that you can format volumes as FAT32? which would then let you read/write from both.
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I've searched Google and this message board for this issue, but haven't found any mention of it.
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