Vista killed my ipod?

hi there,
I have a Powerbook G4, a WinXP SP2 PC and a Vista PC. My iPod photo was previously mac formatted, but because I wanted to test Vista I reformatted it on the Vista machine.
Unfortunately, before Apple issued the warning, I removed the ipod from Vista through the system tray.
Now I can't get either the mac or the winxp sp2 machines to recognise the ipod at all.
My most fervent wish is simply to restore the ipod and use it with the mac machines.
What can I do? Is my ipod broken for ever?
Cheers,
Renai

see doing the following helps
1. Put your iPod into disk mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
2.For Mac computer
1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”

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