How do I restore iPod 4th generation?

dont have a PC anymore unfortunately, gave it away after switching to Mac. I'll try again after a restart and use a different port :) I'll let you know what happens when I get around to it. pretty busy procrastinating at the moment haha

on a side note, Restoring iPods on my Mac has been successful before, albeit very convoluted and stressful, it tends to fail and get stuck etc every once in a while but hey maybe windows does the same???

just tried again using a different port, MAJOR MISTAKE.

immediately my Mac began running very slow and the Music app just completely REFUSED to open, finder opened once, only showed the iPod drive but no iPod. closed finder window, reopened and I got the spinning beachball thing. unplugged the iPod without being able to eject it, nothing's corrupted on it but im worried something might be. as soon as I unplugged the iPod my Mac is now working fine, typing this message from it now in fact (thank god my Macs ok) but I'm unsure what to do next.

currently in the process of restoring!!!

it was a very stressful minutes of using Disk Utility for the first time to erase the iPod. It appeared to have gotten stuck on the unmounting process but kept going luckily. gave me an error at the end, but turns out the erase went fine. iPod rebooted and showed up in Finder but not Music. Currently says your Mac is restoring the software on this iPod. let you know when its done and if it did what it was supposed to :)

everything worked great! just restored, iPod asked for firewire but didn't mind a high-power usb wall adapter instead. silly 4th gen!!! only problem, finder went a little funny when iPod was unplugged, thinking it was still in the process of a restore but this has happened to me many times before, a good old restart does the trick.