My hard drive crashed so I installed itunes on my laptop but my music library is gone. How do I get it back?

I still have all of the songs on the ipod itself but I'm afraid that if I connect the ipod to my laptop that I will lose all of my music on it. What can I do?

It will only be where you put it.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion.  Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to backup ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod.  File>Transfer Purchases.

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