Synching to new computer when old computer is dead...

I'm sure it's been asked before, but I can't find the answer.
I had all my music on one machine, and about 95% was from CD. About 5% was purchased from iTunes. This machine was a macbook, and the hard drive crashed last week.
I've installed a new hard drive.
1- Can I move the music off my iPod to the new hard drive? Or just the iTunes music?
2- I can't deauthorize the old hard drive, because it's dead.
Outside of ripping all my CDs again (which took me months), how can I get my music off my ipod on to my new machine.
And yes, some of it is backed-up, but the stuff I finished over the last 6 weeks is not.
Thanks

*1- Can I move the music off my iPod to the new hard drive? Or just the iTunes music?*
Connect your iPod to your computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve music files and playlists from your iPod. I use Senuti but have a look at the web pages and documentation for the others too, you'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos and games as well. This is just a small selection of what's available, you can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
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There's also a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to a Mac or PC. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync.
*2- I can't deauthorize the old hard drive, because it's dead.*
You can't deauthorise a 'dead' installation or a computer you no longer have access to on it's own. However once you reach the limit of 5 authorisations you have the option once a year to deauthorise them all in one go and start over: About iTunes Music Store Authorisation and Deauthorisation

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