Transfer my iTunes music from a Macbook Pro to a Widows Vista computer.

I may not be on the right thread, but anyways. I have just bought a computer with Windows Vista on it. My plan is to put all my iTunes music from my Macbook Pro onto this computer. My Macbook Pro is just running out of hard drive space is my main reason for this. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this? I read an article from apple about using your iPod as a portable hard drive, but my windows based computer just keeps asking to reformat it. I assume that if I was to format it that when I plug it to the mac to get the music off, it will prompt me to format it for a mac. Any replies are appreciated.
falon

If your iPod is formatted for Mac it won't run natively on a PC because Windows operating systems don't recognize Mac OS-formatted disks (HFS or HFS Plus formats). Macs however can read Windows drives so you could restore and format the iPod on a PC and use it as an external drive or if you have access to one you could use a full size Windows formatted external drive.
If you intend using the iPod on Mac and Windows there is one proviso, Apple currently only fully supports using the iPod shuffle in FAT32 format on Mac. In practical terms what this means is that all future software updates for the iPod would have to be carried out in Windows to maintain the formatting.

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