Hard drive is Failing how do I save the iTunes 7 data?

On my iMac G4 the hard drive no longer mounts since I tried to upgrade to Leopard from 10.4.11. What I need to know is what data do I take from the hard drive to save my iTunes library of 13gigs. I would like to save whatever I need to reinstall it when I replace the drive. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Well clearly you want to try and save anything and everything you can. Typically in the iTune Music folder you will find all the media files. With just those you can start a new library but won't have stuff like playlists, some artwork, play counts, etc.
If you can find them, there are two data base files in the iTunes folder and also likely an artwork folder. Artwork you can always redownload from the iTunes store, so not a big deal saving that one if you can't. But if you can save either of the two database files (one being the XML file) you may be able to recreate all/most of your library as it was before.
Good luck,
Patrick

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