Reinstall on new Hard Drive

Hi
My secondary hard drive is dying, so I bought a third one and transferred everything. However, I still need to move my iTunes installation. I have 45Gb of music on my iPod and I don't want to lose it all and have to reimport.
Can anyone tell me how I should go about this? When I uninstall - will it delete all the music files? If so, then can I copy the library away somewhere and paste it back after reinstallation?
I need to get this off the drive as soon as possible so I can bin it.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Tom

-first of all you have to know that removing itunes dont affect your library cuz this one is well saved in another directory you may consult it from :
itunes >edit>preferences>advanced
(defualt directory it's C:>document&settings>my documents>my music>itunes>itunes music "if you are using windows")
-second to keep all of your music safe :crate a new samart playlist on itunes >file>new playlist then move to your main itunes library and select all your songs copy it and paste to the playlist just created
by checking the itunes music's directory disribed above you may find all your songs in the new playlist folder once done you have just to do whatever you want with it (copy ,paste,rename ...)
try it ...postback if any you encounter problem good luck

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