New computer erase all songs

i got an ipod for christmas and got tons of songs on my home computer and now i charge it on my laptop and their are no songs on my ipod how do i get them back?
please help

Sounds like your iPod is set to auto update when you connect to a computer? If so when you connect it to a computer with an empty or different iTunes library it will automatically syncronise and update. If you plan to use your iPod on more than one computer you need to change the preferences to manual song management. There's a tutorial on the subject here: http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorial/ipgettingstartedt3.html

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New computer erased all songs from my ipod

I've connected my ipod to a new computer I bought. All the songs appeared on the itunes folder, but when i synced the ipod, all the songs from the ipod where erased. That happend because the songs where not on my new pc. What can I do to make the songs come back! The big problem is that all my songs are from cds and most of them are not with me anymore! I gave the cds because I thought I would never need them anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm desperad!!!!!
Two extra informations.
1) When I noticed that all the songs on the libary where getting the "!" I disconnected the ipod, but it didn't help me at all, because the ipod only had in the memory the three new cds I've just bought and put into the new computer!
2)My previous computer's hard drive is damaged so I cannot get the songs back!
Message was edited by: Livia Zi

Pressing "Erase and Sync" when iTunes brings up the dialogue window asking whether you want to replace the songs on your iPod with the songs in this iTunes does exactly what it says. If you linked to an iTunes with only a few or completely different songs it will have erased your original iPod song list. There are some data recovery programs on the market. I've no personal experience of them so I can't say how effective they are, here's an example: iPod Data Recovery
None of the recovery programs are particularly cheap so you have to decide if in your particular circumstances it's worth it to get your songs back.

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x3morggg3x wrote:
I recently got a new laptop and didn't transfer my iTunes over from the old one.
Why not? Should you have done so, you would not be in this predicament.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Migrate+iTunes+library

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iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Alternatively, if your media was downloaded from the iTunes Store, you may be able to download it again free of charge:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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