Life without music care of two thefts, a crash, and a new drive

Hi,
They say that things happen in threes - and they are right. on the same day, my iPad and iPhone were extricated from my possession and my Mac crashed. Eventually my phone will be replaced. In the meantime I am using a throwaway £15 Samsung thing that is sending me mental. I have replaced the iPad with a shiny new one and, after a lot of work have persuaded my Mac Mini to work-ish.
the 320Gb Seagate drive in the Mac Mini has toasted itself. Ni recovery program will fix it - most of them cannot see it. I have replaced it with an internal 120Gb SSD and an external 120Gb SSD. I have added a 1Tb external for Time Machine and a 1.5Tb external for documents and storage. The two SSD drives hold the system and the applications. Unfortuneately, as the original 320Gb drive is toasted, and for whatever reason the toasting took out my original Time Machine, the current situation is a new system and reinstall the paid for apps. That's all fine until I get to iTunes. I don't have my 43 days 45 year collection of music as the phone and pad went missing. I do have a Classic iPod of the kind with a 60Gb hard drive. That has my music collection on board.
Eventually gets to the question... Two things. One, how do I get the music back into the iTunes on the new drive on my Mini and, Two, can anyone suggest a disk repair/recovery program that might help me reconstruct some of my lost files from the drive.
Thanks in advance, Keith P in rainy Cheshire, UK

Some of the information below has subsequently appeared in a document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was designed for you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchased content.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only media purchased from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. Examples (check the web for others; this is not an exhaustive listing, nor do I have any idea if they are any good):
- Senuti - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
- Phoneview - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
- MusicRescue - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
- Sharepod (free) - http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2 - Windows
- Snowfox/iMedia - http://www.mac-videoconverter.com/imedia-transfer-mac.html - Mac & PC
- iexplorer (free) - http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ - Mac&PC
- Yamipod (free) - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/ - PC, Linux, Mac [Still updated for use on newer devices? No edits to site since 2010.]
- 2010 Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141 - dates from 2008 and some outdated information now.
Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/ - Information about use in disk mode pertains only to older model iPods.
Get Your Music Off of Your iPod - http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Your_Music_Off_of_Your_iPod - I am not sure but this may only work with some models and not newer Touch, iPhone, or iPad.
Additional information here https://discussions.apple.com/message/18324797
File recovery software: Try using an application such as Data Rescue 3 - http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php or FileSalvage - http://subrosasoft.com, or one of the ones listed in the link below. Some have free trial versions that let you see if the software will help before you decide to buy. You will also need a second hard drive equal to or larger in size than your first drive as a destination drive for recovered files. Note that such recovery is often meeessy. Sometimes files are recovered but without any names, etc.
http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software

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