HT4914 What do you do if you can not log into a computer to access your account? I have 4000+ songs/videos they are backed up on an external hard drive due to a computer that was ready to die, backed all up, new net book doesn't support iTunes? Help!

Can anyone answer the above question?

Not sure what your question is. If you want to sync them to your iPad then you will need to use a computer, you won't be able to connect an external drive to it - there are some wifi-enabled drives that allow you to stream music and videos to an iPad (so you could potentially use your netbook to copy them over to one), but if you want to store them on the iPad then you will need a computer that can run iTunes.
If they are iTunes purchases then you might be able to re-download some of them directly on the iPad via the Purchased tab in the iTunes store app.

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HT4914 What do you do if you can not log into a computer to access your account? I have 4000+ songs/videos they are backed up on an external hard drive due to a computer that was ready to die, backed all up, new net book doesn't support iTunes? Help!

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