Help! I erased my library!

Help!! I just erased the entire library from my ipod by accident! The songs on my ipod are no longer available to me from a computer(old computer died, new computer has no music yet). Is there anyway to restore this?
Compaq/HP   Windows XP  

I presume that you pressed yes at the iTunes warning. Pressing "Yes" when iTunes brings up the dialogue window asking whether you want to replace the songs on your iPod with the songs in iTunes does exactly what it says. If you linked to a blank iTunes it will have erased your original iPod song list. There are some data recovery programs on the market but I don't know how effective they are either technically or in terms of cost . Here's an example I found using Google : iPod Data Recovery

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