Ipad deleted all the music on it's own.

Listening to iPad and the music stopped playing. Tried to play anther song and there was no music on the iPad. It says "no items" when you go to a song list. The songs on the PC it was synced to disappeared as well. When you click any songs to play them, iTunes cannot locate the file. I attempted to manually locate the files and they can't be found on the PC either. iTunes won't sync the few songs left on the computer to the iPad either.
Haven't tried to restore the iPad to factory settings yet. I'm hoping to find another solution before re-syncing everything.

Try resetting your iPad:
Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10 seconds).
If this doesn't work try Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
If all else fails restore your iPad via iTunes.

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