I just recently started using my 40G ipod as a external hard drive in addition for as a music player i was only using it on OS X tiger until I tried to use it on XP. when XP (on virtual/pc 7 crashed) I rebutted the computer and I tunes is supposed to come up automatically . it didn't so I turn it on and it said "iTunes has detected an iPod that appears to be corrupted. You may need to restore this iPod before i can be used with iTunes. You may also try disconnecting and reconnecting the ipod." i'd really prefer not to do that so I downloaded this YamiPod (the OS X version) and it on the little window "YamiPod (iPod not connected)" the ipod also doesn't show up in the finder or on the desktop. I tried disk utility disk repair and that didn't work tried it on another computer that didn't work. I'm out of ideas here. any suggestions? thanks for any help!

if it doesn't show up as a disk then nothing will be able to acces it, the only option I see is to do the itunes repair