Help me recover my music please

my hard drive crashed. Installed a new one. Reloaded new windows xp. Reloaded iTunes. Lost all my 10,000 songs. Except for the 125 purchased ones I have bought over the year. But are my songs lost and gone forever?

Not if you can figure out how to recover them from your last backup.

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    If it's off the computer and off the iPod, you are probably up a creek.
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    Message was edited by: LarryHN

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    Are you upgrading from an existing iPhone? Back up old phone, then restore new phone with the cable. I had to do this a number of time to get all my purchases across.

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  • Please how to recover my music whith exclamation marks "lost" without any reason.

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
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    Old laptop died, got latest itunes on new laptop and recovered all music from external hard drive but ipad2 not being recognised as a device when plugged in so can't sync? Do i reset my ipad2?!!!! Its only taken 7 months to get to this point.
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    iPad not appearing in iTunes
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
    Apple - Support - iPad - Syncing
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     Cheers, Tom

  • I downloaded the new iTunes and by doing lost all my songs, is there any way to recover my music ?

    Can someone please help to recover all my music, I had a different computer before and I didnt transfer my music to my new laptop. I had all my muisc in my itouch though. I downloaded the new itunes and lost all my music, i will like to know what can i do to recover it  ?
    I will apppreciate it if someone can help me so that i recover all my music

    If you have a non-encrypted hard drive you can do this with $100 software.
    Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive

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