Formatting Dilemma

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galleongalleon
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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
Last summer I bought a 60 gig iPod. I was still, unfortunately, using a PC/XP at the time. Now I have a powerbook. My ipod's hard drive is bigger than the PC's was, so I have music on the iPod that is no longer on the PC's hard drive/itunes. I also don't want to load my powerbook HD down with music either. My goal is to have a large portable, external harddrive as a media backup for the ipod, plug the ipod and the portable HD into the mac and work it that way. Now comes the problem. I want to eliminate my PC from use entirely (its in storage), but that leaves a lot of music stranded on the iPod. Is there a way to to reformat the ipod without losing the music on it (probably an asinine question), or a way to crack into the iPod harddrive where the actual music files are (ie, using a mac instead of the PC for which it was formatted), transfer them to a hard drive (ie, the one on my powerbook), reformat the ipod to mac, and then put the music back onto the ipod from the hard drive?



Thanks!
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