Move account onto another computer...lost all my songs :(

Hello,
I am very new to computers and my ipod nano. I went to set it up at my home computer and I lost all the songs that were already on my ipod. How do you get them back?
Appricate any help!
~thanks!

Hopefully the songs are still on your computer somewhere.
You can go to the XP Start menu > Search function and have a look. Enter the appropriate extension for the files (*.mp3, *.m4a, *.m4p are the most likely) and see what comes up.
Here are some other tips on finding lost files:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301749
If they're not on your computer but are still on your nano, have a look at MacMuse's post on recovering music from an iPod. Read it over slowly and carefully before proceeding. Post back if anything's not clear.
A very important lesson to be learned from this incident is that from now on you should always make sure you have a back-up copy of your music (or any other information stored on your computer that you consider to be valuable). Otherwise sometime, somehow, somewhere when you least expect it, you'll end up losing it.
I hope that's not the case this time but remember:
Your music is valuable - please back it up!

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