Windows Media Player found my iPod ? ? ? ?

I bought a iPod last night. It's the 30GB 5G model. I love this thing. It's the first one I have ever had. I found podcasts using iTunes . . . anyways, on to my question.
I plugged it in this evening while I was ripping CD's with iTunes. I also had Windows Media Player up and paused because I was watching a TV show (mpg file) that I had recorded. WMP saw the iPod and started writing to it somehow. Do I need to somehow clear out the iPod and re-sync from scratch?
Wayne

It appeared to be writing to it. It found it as a generic media player/drive even though I did not enable "drive use" on the iPod. So if wrote stuff, and can't play it, then there is stuff wasting space . . . So maybe it would be best to wipe it and start over.
I think there is a option to "factory reset" it with the software. If I remember right, it clears the unit of music etc. Then I could resync right?
wayne

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