Purchased songs lost. Can I get them back?
Hi all,
My hard disk crashed. My entire music library is gone. I didn't back up (bad move). Now I wonder if I can pick up some pieces.
I purchased some songs at the iTunes Store. Can I get those songs back? And how?
Thanks in advance to all generous souls.
DAranjuez
iPod nano Windows XP Pro
Another possible option is to run disk data recovery utilities on the old hard drive to try to recover the music song files, as they are just data files to the computer.
You could install the drive internally to the PC on another drive cable, or externally via a USB or Firewire powered case, then run the disk recovery utilities. There are several free tools - one simple free tool is Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - at www.recuva.com. And several commercial products you could buy. O&O software is one such vendor for windows, at www.oo-software.com. Or Prosoft Engineering, at www.prosofteng.com has both windows and mac data recovery tools.
And other similar software also out there.
Most offer a trial scan mode to let you see if the data you want can be recovered - then you would buy the product to get the recovery mode enabled.
Note the tools usually take hours to scan and recover.
I would say that it would be worth investing at least a bit of time (and $) to investigate data recovery from the old drive. As long as it spins up, one of those recovery tools may be able to get your song, and other data back.
Or, there are services that can recover data from crashed hard drives, but the service is very expensive (hundreds to thousands of dollars, depending on who, and how much data).
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