MY HARD DRIVE DELETED BY VIRIUS!!! ALL SONGS ERASED!!!

I need help...my Hard Drive wuz deleted by a virius unexpectedly and all 400 of my songs were erased...I have a profile on iTunes and everything...and I still got all songs on my iPod...I'm wondering if I can get them back somehow...maybe uploading to iTunes from my iPod or maybe my account has memory...or did I lose them for good? HELP!

Your account does not allow you to "Re" download store bought songs, apple recommends you backup all your purchases to CD or some other media for backing up like a external harddrive or something.
Once you get windows installed back on the harddrive, install all updates for windows including the SP2 (Service pack 2) update, goto apple and download install the latest version of iTunes to the PC.
Now if you had your iPod set to Manual update, skip this if it was on auto update or your not sure continue. connect the iPod to the PC, when iTunes opens and gives you a message about "Different library" just hit No, rightclick the ipod in itunes, hit options, then check "Enable Disk Usage"
Now you can use thrid party software like yamipod http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ to copy songs from iPod back to iTunes/Your PC

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aespinoza2210 wrote:
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Hi
I recently moved my itunes to a new computer by using a external hard drive.
However my itunes music is not all playable. over 4000 songs have a ! mark and when tried to be played or copied to ipod or iphone, it says that this song cannot be found and asks to locate it.
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