Windows and Mac with same iPod

I have an iPod I have been using for over a year on my Mac with iTunes. I wanted to be able to connect it to my girlfriends PC so she can use it when she is working on her 'puter. She downloaded iTunes, then the iPod software from the Apple site, installed everything, but then it askes if she wants to format it. I don't want to lose 15 gigs of music so I told her not to do anything else til I can find an answer. How do we proceed at this point? Is it possible to do what I want to do or will we have to buy her her own Mac... to use my iPod.

Macs can read a Windows formatted iPod, but a Windows PC cannot directly read a Mac formatted iPod.
You can format the iPod for Windows use and then use it across the two platforms, but that will erase the iPod and require you to resync it to your iTunes.
There is a software you can purchase that will allow a Windows PC to read a Mac formatted HD (or iPod). See: XPlay (Software For Music Recovery &/or Cross-Platform Functionality)

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