My mp3 itunes collection is on a NAS drive. I have physically lost an album

An iTunes purchased album has disappeared from my storage location shared by several devicesd downloadable options in the store. Yet when I run itunes the album shows and is playable!
Why?
How do I redownload the album from istore? I log in and check purchased and downloaded options in itunes store and the purchases and available downloads do not show the missing album.
Can anyone help with these issues? I do not find iTunes a user-friendly piece of software anyway
Thx

WIndows is asking you to reformat the iPod's hard disk because it's probably in the Mac OS X Extended Journaled file system format which the Windows OS can neither read or write to. Reformatting will erase all content from the device and rebuild the filesystem as FAT32 unless you specify it as NTFS (which you shouldn't do).
If you want to be able to use your iPod to copy music from your Mac to your PC, you'll need to either pre-format it as FAT32 using Disk Utility on your Mac and then copy everything over to your PC, or use third party software such as XPlay that allows a Windows PC to read and write to a Mac formatted iPod.
Perhaps you could take a look at this article for other ways to copy your iTunes library and files from your Mac to the PC.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
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really??
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Can I put the ".itl" and other database files on the NAS, and if so where would I put them?
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