My Ipod touch is recognized by itunes, but not by my computer!

My hard drive recently crashed, and I had to get a new one. I lost all my songs, so I am trying to transfer them to my new harddrive, but windows only recoginzes my ipod touch as a camera, so I can't get to my songs. Help?

There is no disk mode like it used to be with the older ipod models. If you bought your music in iTunes, make sure autosync is disabled, connect to your computer and right click on your ipod in the device list in iTunes.
Choose "transfer purchases" to copy all media and apps bought in iTunes to your new iTunes library.
Also back up manually, to be able to restore your ipod after the first sync, which will erase your device due to the new iTunes library created on your HD.
Make sure to have at least one contact and event listed on your computer, to get the merge prompt while syncing contacts and calendars.
More about backups here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
There is 3rd party software out there to copy media you did not buy in iTunes, but not supported by Apple, see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0

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