Repaced hard drive on my computer - all songs on my ipod.

My hard drive was replaced on my PC laptop. All my songs and audio books were lost. I currently have all my songs and audio pods on my ipod (60 g. ipod). When I sync next time can I
1) Transfer my songs and audio back to my hard drive and
2) If not can I keep whats on my ipod, and just sync and add new material to my ipod.
Instructions would be appreciated.
Thanks

Taking songs off ipod & getting them back on your computer.
Keeping your music in just one place is a bad idea. You might need to do a restore, which will wipe everything on it. OR, as you found out, you might have to replace your hard drive.
I highly recommend the following articles for future reference: Backing Up Your Music in iTunes and Tips on Using An External Drive to Back Up Music

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do this:
To display hidden files and folders
Open Folder Options in Control Panel.
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Folder Options.
On the View tab, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
Close the window and go to My Computer again.
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Does this help???
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After upgrading to a new hard drive
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I'm going to move all my data back to the first hard drive
So you deleted it from the original hard drive?
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Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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aespinoza2210 wrote:
could it be in the itunes folder or does it have to be in the itunes media folder, which is within the itunes folder??
A Espinoza,
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Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
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Cheers AF

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TimT wrote:
I had been thinking that the hard dri've is starting to fail on me but then I thought about the fact that, If I play an MP3 and the player freezes up or starts jumping through the mp3 file, Then I restart the player and start the same MP3 agian and this time it plays normally, Is it really a hard dri've problem?
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I figure that if the hard dri've was damaged it would always freeze up on the same file at the exact same point in the music wouldn't it's
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See this older post by another forum member Zevoneer on the different methods and options available to copy content from your iPod back to your PC.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Repaced hard drive on my computer - all songs on my ipod.

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