iPod Reformatting

[Telp]

My friend has recently bought a new imac. However they had a machine running windows before and have a windows formatted iPod. Is there a way this person can reformat the iPod for Macs?

 

[netdog]

My friend has recently bought a new imac. However they had a machine running windows before and have a windows formatted iPod. Is there a way this person can reformat the iPod for Macs?

While the Mac should work with the Windows-formatted iPod, you can initialize it by updating the iPod (now done through iTunes rather than the updater me thinks). You can also probably initialize it through disk utility or by right-clicking on the iPod? (just guesses)

 

[Telp]

While the Mac should work with the Windows-formatted iPod, you can initialize it by updating the iPod (now done through iTunes rather than the updater me thinks). You can also probably initialize it through disk utility or by right-clicking on the iPod? (just guesses)

Thanks for the fast reply and thanks ill let them know.

 

[Cinematographer]

Watch out.

The Apple support site says:

"You should not partition, format, or change the formatting of iPod's hard disk using Disk Utility, Windows Explorer or other utility unless you are performing troubleshooting steps that require this step.

iPod, iPod mini, and iPod shuffle cannot play music if you format or partition the hard disk."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60957-en:

 

[WillJS]

Just plug it in. No special steps required.. it will format itself.. it did for me.