I want my iPod to synch with my new computer and it won't

Hello,
Hoping that someone could help me. My computer recently caught a virus and I was not able to back up my hard drive. I lost ALL of my information including all of my songs on my library. Now that I have a new computer, I want to put all of the songs on my iPod into the new library but I get a message that reads something like this "your ipod belongs to a different library, would you like to erase your ipod to match this library" I of course said no because then I would end up with zero songs. Has anyone else had this issue before?
Thank you,
Sandra
iPod 30 GB video   Windows XP  

Check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer.
There's also another method. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
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.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), there's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
The above methods may depend on what version of iTunes you are running.
If none of these methods work, try CopyPod which also supports the transfer of videos from iPod to computer.

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