Recovering Library from HDD crash

I have CDs and other music in my library which is synced to both iPod & iPad. The laptop on which I kept my library had a HDD crash. How do I recover the non-purchased music into my "new" iTunes library?

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to put everything back.

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Since it's a new machine, contact Apple's Support, formerly Apple Express Lane and let them deal with it.

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Copy your iTunes Library from your Old computer, or it’s Backup, to your New computer...
See Here for one way
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
Or...
From your Old Computer... Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
An Added Bonus is that you will then have a Backup of iTunes...
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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http://www.macworld.com/article/146958/2010/03/move_itunes_windows_mac.html
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Howdy's,
Essentially, I have a G4 (866mhz) Quicksilver tower as a server here. Its an older machine but does its job. Until such time as I started to lose the HDD.
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Jason

Somewhat solved.
I have no idea why this failed originally, but... I didn't have enough space on any Mac machine to copy (scp/cp/finder copy and paste) the images to when the machine was still running.
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Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

General File Recovery
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The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
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It will only be where you put it.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to backup ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod. File>Transfer Purchases.

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