Dreaded folder icon HELP!!!!

[ProgrammerGeek]

I just got my first ipod and it was a mac. I followed the instructions to flash the bios and format it as a windows ipod and it seemed to hang. After about 1/2 hour I disconnected it and tried several times again. All I get is it boots to the apple icon and then just the folder appears. What do I do. It does cannect and appears to down load the firmware but just sits there and spins and sais do not disconnect. After a hour or more I eject it and just get the folder.

HELP, any sugestions?

[revmike]

What kind of firewire card are you using?

[ProgrammerGeek]

it is a fire wire card that came with the pc, it might be on the motherboard. It is a compaq parsio, bt it does sow the ipod connected. and appeard to down load the bios to it. The othe odd theing is when I look at the drive through my computer it thinks it is 39 gigs. can't write to it but something is odd. I jsut think the formating blew up and I can't figure out how to reformat it.