Computer crashed and got a new one, but can't access previous purchases from iTunes.
My PC crashed and I got a Mac, I can't get my old purchases from the iTunes store onto my new computer. Is there a way to get my purchases from the iTunes store on my new computer? It's showing all the songs/videos I bought but I can't access them.
daffydaf2010 wrote:
My PC crashed and I got a Mac...
Welcome to the club
I can't get my old purchases from the iTunes store onto my new computer. Is there a way to get my purchases from the iTunes store on my new computer? It's showing all the songs/videos I bought but I can't access them.
When you purchase content from the iTunes Store it's downloaded to the storage/hard drive of the computer you purchased them on. You should have made a backup like iTunes warns you to do.
However there is some hope, I can instruct you how to recover your content from the hard drive of the dead PC, provided the hard drive ITSELF still mechanically works and if your willing to perhaps spend some money and get your hands a bit dirty.
Recovery option:
I'm going to assume here that the PC is dead, either mechanically or the computer won't boot from the hard drive and you are willing to extract the hard drive from the computer and see if it works to get your data off.
Be gentle, disconnect the power and remove the battery before carefully opening up the PC to remove the drive.
Once you got the drive out there is a powered IDE/SATA to USB adapter for sale online for $20 that you can take that internal hard drive and use it like a external drive to access your files from another Windows machine.
Your attempting to access a Windows NTFS drive from a Mac which can't read it, you need Paragons's NTFS for Mac® OS X software installed on the Mac first before hooking up the NTFS Windows formatted drive.
Once you do that, you should be able to navigate to your Windows/Music folder and transfer the whole iTunes folder directly to the Mac desktop and also recover any other files you need as well.
Good Luck
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