Lost hard drive -- need to restore iTunes song library from iPod

i recently purchased my first iPod and downloaded iTunes to my PC. I then loaded 850 songs from my collection of CDs. Shortly after, my hard drive crashed - completely unrecoverable. I bought a new PC (laptop) with Vista. Now i need to reload iTunes. Can i download all of my songs from my iPod onto my newly installed iTunes? I'm afraid that when I "synch" I will lose everything on my iPod since nothing will be in my iTunes library. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

do this:
To display hidden files and folders
Open Folder Options in Control Panel.
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Folder Options.
On the View tab, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
Close the window and go to My Computer again.
1. Click on your iPod's drive and go to iPod_Control
2. Click now on Music and you'll see a few folders titled F00, F01, F02, etc.
3. Click on a folder and highlight all the music, and drag them to Library in iTunes. You should now have all the music syncing, and most will be named correctly, but still some you will have to rename
**Also, it helps to have the second checkbox in Edit>Preferences>Advanced checked so that it makes a copy of your music file to an independent iTunes Music Folder.**
~~This being useful in that you'll be able to play all your music without having to have the iPod plugged in~~
Does this help???
Message was edited by: TMusquiez
Message was edited by: TMusquiez

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