New motherboard, Backed Up, But will I be Alright?

So my computor broke recentally but I just fixed my computor. I have backed up my hardrive and all so I still have the files on my IPod Touch 4 but I am unsure if Itunes will recognise me as a new user and delete everything on my IPod that I have at the moment and replace it with everything in my Itunes libuary?
I syned my IPod just before my computor broke if that helps in any way. Will all my game progresses still be there?

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One more question about the Clone programs, How are they stored? Do they create a file then you put it on your external drive or are they stored in your computer somewhere?
Most folks put them on external drives. They are exact copies of your internal HD (thus the clever name), so you can boot and run your Mac from them immediately when your internal HD fails (unlike Time Machine, which has to be restored somewhere, usually a replaced internal HD).
It's likely a bit safer to use a separate drive from TM, but some of us just use two partitions on the same drive.
This is probably more detail than you want or need, but might be helpful:
There are three basic types of backup applications: Bootable Clone, Archive, and Time Machine.
This is a general explanation and comparison. Many variations exist, of course, and some combine features of others.
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_*BOOTABLE "CLONE"*_
These make a complete, "bootable" copy of your entire system on an external disk/partition, a second internal disk/partition, or a partition of your internal disk.
Advantages
When your internal HD fails, you can boot and run from the clone immediately. Your Mac may run a bit slower, but it will run, and contain everything that was on your internal HD at the time the clone was made or last updated.
You can test whether it will run, just by booting-up from it (but of course you can't be positive that everything is ok without actually running everything).
If it's on an external drive, you can easily take it off-site.
Disadvantages
Making an entire clone takes quite a while. Most of the cloning apps have an update feature, but even that takes quite a while, as they must examine everything on your system to see what's changed and needs to be backed-up. Since this takes lots of time and CPU, it's usually not practical to do this more than once or twice a day.
Normally, it only contains a copy of what was on your internal HD when the clone was made or last updated.
Some do have a feature that allows it to retain the previous copy of items that have been changed or deleted, in the fashion of an archive, but of course that has the same disadvantages as an archive.
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_*TRADITIONAL "ARCHIVE" BACKUPS*_
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Advantages
They're usually fairly simple and reliable. If the increments are on separate media, they can be taken off-site easily.
Disadvantages
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_*TIME MACHINE*_
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It's not bootable. If your internal HD fails, you can't boot directly from your TM backups. You must restore them, either to your repaired/replaced internal HD or an external disk. This is a fairly simple, but of course lengthy, procedure.
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It is fairly complex, and somewhat new, so may be a bit less reliable than some others.
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RECOMMENDATION
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