New hard drive/new processor

Question

i recently upgraded to a new processor/hard drive, my old hard drive is still in my computer as local drive F, i went there to move my ipod software onto the new hard drive, and it didnt work, so i reinstalled the software onto the new hard drive, now i cant get my library info from the old drive to the new, if i open itunes from the old drive, it appears empty! i still have all the info on my ipod, if i plug in the ipod will it be wiped clean? is there a way to transfer the info from the ipod to the computer, i have 1300 songs and many photos, i dont want to have to import all that again

Answer 1

"if i plug in the ipod will it be wiped clean?"
If you let the iPod sync to a blank iTunes -- YES!
Based on your psot, your music and photo data files are still on the HD, just not within iTunes as References. You do have some options:
1 - Try to recover your original Library by moving the music folders and database file back to their original location (now on the new C: drive) - then move them to whatever location you want (if desired)
2 - Move all the music files to their final location, then Rebuild the Library within iTunes by: File=>Add Folder
3 - Recover the music from the iPod using any one of several methods (but as long as you have the files on the PC already, why?)
Option 1 will retain your Ratings, Play Counts, Last Played and Date Added attributes as well as your Playlists.
Option 2 will lose the above music metadata.
Option 3 can do either, depending on the method selected.
Whatcha wanna do?