My computer hard drive crashed and all my i-tunes were lost - can I re-load them from my iPod?

My hard drive crashed and destroyed all the i-tunes that I had burned from my CDs and purchased. The are still on my iPod Classic, can I load them on the computer, I have re-installed the i-tune program and the last purchase I made was re-installed, but nothing else.  I don't want to sync my iPod, iPhone and Shuffle and lose them.  What should I do?

Your iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time.  It will recognize the iTunes library on the reloaded PC as a new library.  If you sync the iPod with this new library, all content will be erased from the iPod and replaced with what is in the new library.  So what you will want to do is copy everything from the iPod to your new iTunes library on your PC first.
See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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