Relatively urgent: iPod 2G with Windows

[atodd]

OK, i have searched everywhere but all the documents I found were old. here goes.

I have a 20GB second-gen iPod (touchwheel, no dock connector) and am looking to sell it. However, most of the people interested are Windows users.

I have read that you can flash the firmware with this Apple-made updater. This supposedly brings the iPod to the Windows 1.3 version of the firmware. Also this 3rd-party one is available, but it's not an Apple one so I don't trust it so much.

If I do one of these updates (please tell me if either one works, and which one is better, as I have not had the opportunity to try, only having a Mac myself), I assume that it will be compatible with Windows fully. Now, I have two questions that could make or break a deal.

1. Will this flashed iPod work with iTunes for Windows?
2. Will it still work as a FireWire HD under Windows?

Thanks anybody who answers, it'd be great to hear about this.

 

[4409723]

I read a while back that using iTunes 4.1 for windows with the iPod converted to windows can stop it working or something along those lines.

 

[sparks9]

Just use the Apple windows firmware updater, and it should work just fine with windows (iTunes and as FW disk).

Check this out:
http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4

 

[atodd]

Nobody can say that it definitely DOES work with iTunes? i've heard reports both for and against that.

argh

 

[sparks9]

Well.... try it then. If it doesn't work just make it a macPod again. It's very easy.