Cannot sync iPod to new computer, will erase and keep only songs from iPAD.  Helllp..

My laptop fell and broke, so I installed itunes on my desktop and hooked up my iPad and synced it, then I hooked up my iPod Touch and synced it, BUT it will not let me sync music.  It tells me by syncing I erase the 1000 songs and replaces it with the songs on my itunes which is 180, which are songs that were on my iPAD.  Please help.  I do not want to loose those 1000 songs and I would love for both devices to have the same music on it.  PLEASE HELP. 
Thanks
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"Thanks so much, but where is my backup copy. "
it would be wherever you put it.  You should eb abcking up your computer regularly.
" I would assume it was on my laptop,no."
Of course not.  You should NEVER put your backup on the computer itself.  That defeats the entire point of a backup.  The entire reason you maintain a backup is so that when your computer fails, you have all of your info in a safe place - external drive, disks, cloud service, flash drive, etc

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