New hard drive, cannot transfer music stored on my shuffle to new library without deleting. Please help

Can anyone help please, I have a window xp computer and had to instal a new hard drive. I am unable to sync the music on my shuffle with the new library without deleting what is on the suffle. Cannot afford to delet what is on the shuffle as it not only music.
Would it be possible to burn the music on my shuffle onto a CD, transfer it to the new library and back to my shuffle?

That sounds vaguely like you need to authorize your computer.
Even thought it's the same 'puter, Apple doesn't know that due to the reformatting.

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Caution: Repartitioning and Reformatting will Erase all of your files on the drive.
It's is probably still Partitioned "Master Boot Record" which is a windoz scheme that the iMac can write and read, but can not use for SuperDuper Cloning or Time Machine.
It's to bad that you didn't Repartition the External HD to "GUID Partition Table" and Reformat it "Mac OS Extended" before you started copying files to it.
At this point you have two options:
1. Copy all of the data on the Seagate to another Internal or External Hard Drive and then Repartition and Reformat it with Disk Utility or SuperDuper.
2. Pick up a second External HD to Partition "GUID Partition Table" and Format "Mac OS Extended" for SuperDuper Cloning.
For Partitioning and Formatting direction and instructions, refer to the following links.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/5.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Formata_Drive_to_Boot_IntelMacs/
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=HDDppcintelformat/HDDppcint elformat.html
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You'll have to take this to Apple for repair.
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First of all make sure that you've definitely backed up the movies to your external hard disc.
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I followed all the instructions for consolidating my music into one folder on my external hard drive. (I'm struggling with this because my ext HD was renamed when I synched my iPod shuffle last night. The "E:" drive has now become the "F:" drive and all my songs have those dreaded exclamation points next to them. Exploring my computer, I found "My music" folders in two place on my C: drive and one place on my external hard drive... and the song list in each place is different.
Argh.
So... following the directions in the article reference here, I attempted to consolidate all of my songs into one folder on my external hard drive.
But.. I checked the song list when the "consolidation" was complete... and MANY songs are missing. They're still on the C: drive, but don't appear to have been copied to the new folder on the ext HD.
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Yes. Just copy all your music to a folder on your external. Then delete the music on your computers hard drive.
It is not quite that simple. If you do that you will end up with many broken links and will have to re-create your library from scratch . iTunes does not like it when you move or rename files or folders and doing so between drives is guaranteed to result in exclamation marks indicating you have broken the links to all your media files.
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Check the box for Sync Music. If your entire music library fits on the iPod, you can choose to sync Entire music library. Otherwise, you can choose to sync Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres. Then...
Below that, select (checkmark) the playlists, artists, albums, and/or genres that you want on the iPod. When you click Apply, your selection syncs to the iPod. Going forward, any changes to your iTunes library that relate to your selection on the Music tab sync automatically to the iPod, when you connect it (or click the Sync button).
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What improvement were they trying to make here anyway? There was nothing wrong to my mind about how podcasts were managed in previous versions. Whatever improvement they were trying to make here, they should have realized that many users would at least want the option to keep things the way they were.
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I see no problem transfering data from/to my mac to the ipod. But I cannot see the ipod on the PC. When I plug the USB cable to my windows PC, it shows a popup message "external disk is not formated. Do you want to format it?".
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