I transferred all my itunes music from my old pc to a new laptop using an external hard drive.  I can drag songs to out ipods, but when i try to add songs to my Iphone 4, I get the red circle with a line through it.  It will not allow me to transfer music

I have transferred all of my itunes music for my old pc to a new laptop via an external hard drive.  All songs are sucessfullt loaded in itunes and I can drag songs to my husband's ipod without any problems.  However, when I try to drag songs to my iphone 4, it will not let me.  I get a red circle with a line through it. Why would it work from itunes to ipod but not to my iphone?  HELP!!!

You might want to check your process for moving your iTunes music against this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527.

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