Formating Hard Drive

My first problem with I tunes is changing the user name, upgraded my computer from desk top to lap top. Since I changed computers I could not get my original I Tunes setup on my new computer. All of the songs, movies and prod cast could not be transferred to another I Tune setup.
I lost all of my songs and had to create another set on songs and now my hard drive had to be reformatted and guess what I lost everything again.
Can’t we come up with a better way of transferring information with I Tunes?????

My first problem with I tunes is changing the user name
What/where is this user name you are changing?
Can’t we come up with a better way of transferring information with I Tunes?????
Better than backing up to a hard drive then copying back?

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