Video Ipod - Half Mac/Half Windows?

I have a Video Ipod that is currently formatted for the Mac. I would like to use about half the storage capacity to transfer files between Macs and PC's and the other half as my Macintosh-formatted ipod. I really don't want to format the whole thing for Windows since I rarely use Windows at home.
Is it possible to partition the ipod so that one partition is the Mac partition that iTunes sees and syncs with and the other partition is a FAT32 partition?
thanks

I doubt you will succeed in this plan however, you can try the non-destructive partitioning software that is available. Or in theory , backup your data, use disk utility to do two partitions,one HFS and one FAT32 and see if iTunes freaks out or not, if it does, restore it. I imagine there may be some details, but in DU you can look now to see the type of partition the iPod uses, since if it is mounted it is just another drive.

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