Why can't my old iPod go from Mac to PC ?  Don't the old ones all do that ?

hi
i know that the new iPods, once formatted for either a Mac or a PC, can only be connected to said OS.
but the old ones, used to be able to go back and forth any time. albeit there might have been 1 or 2 little hitches - but i remember overcoming them rather easily.
so i have a friend of mine who gave me his ipod and i set it all up on my mac. loaded it to the brim.
it is a 20 gig running OS 1.2.1 [and it looks just like my really old did - so i assume it's pretty old]
its model # is A1099 and it was made in 2005.
i am not sure what other way there is to figure out exactly which generation it is -- but maybe i provided enough info here for someone to properly identify it.
so what gives? when i plug it into a PC - it only gives me the option to system restore from scratch and wipe out all my hard work!
can someone gimme some ideas as to why it won't work on both os's?
thanks!!

iPods that are formatted for Windows can be used on both a Mac and a PC as is, while Mac formatted iPods require third-party software to be used in Windows; iTunes will not update the firmware of an iPod which isn't formatted for that platform outside of a restore. This does not apply to the iPod shuffle, which is always formatted for Windows, and the iPod touch, for which all disk access is handled by iTunes and cannot be used as a storage drive.
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