My Hard disk crashed and I didn't have all the songs backed up

Question

I had to replace my hard disk and only had 3,000 or so songs backed up - I have a total of about 5,000 songs on my 30 Gig Video iPod. Many of the songs I didn't have backed up were purchased songs from iTunes. Is there a way to move those songs from my iPod to my new hard disk?
Dell Dimension 8250   Windows XP Pro   2.65 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
Dell Dimension 8250   Windows XP Pro   2.65 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
Dell Dimension 8250   Windows XP Pro   2.65 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

Answer 1

This is what you will want to do, you will want to go into the tools menu in your windows explorer. Select folder options, click on the view tab. Once you are on the view tab, click on the folder that says hidden files and folders. On the hidden files and folders click show hidden files and folders. Then click ok on the folder options window. When you open the ipod now you will see the ipod control folder. In that folder there will be a music folder. Open that. There will be a number of folders that will begin with F00 you will want to go into the folder and you will see a bunch of song files with coded names. You will want to drag them to where it says library in itunes. The songs will automatically rename themselves to the correct name. Go through each one of the folders like this and your library will be restored.
The only thing that I would tell you is that this will duplicate all the songs in your library. So I would clear your entire library before you start this process