Hard drive crash - what can I do?

my hard drive has died with no backup (stupid, I know) so I am trying to figure out what my options are to restore my music library without re-importing all my cds (I had about 20 gigs in my computer).
1) once I get a new hard drive is there any way to pull the songs from my ipod back down onto my computer?
2) if not, I was thinking my other option could be to see if a computer repair place could restore the data from my drive onto an external hard drive which I could then copy back to my computer and use the external drive to backup my computer to avoid this happening again.
assuming the data is there on the busted drive, is that a feasible plan?

Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
However it appears that no playlists or any other info such as ratings/last played etc will transfer.
If this is important to you, you may want to use other options.
There's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod to iTunes.

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