Transferring Music from iPhone to new computer

Hello,
The computer I normally sync with iTunes has crashed suddenly with an I/O error on the hard disk. This has left the computer completely useless and now I am trying to manage the music on my iPhone with my work laptop, (Windows PC) but I am only able to transfer my purcahsed songs from iTunes off my phone to the work laptop music library, and I can't sync without losing all my other content on the iPhone that is in my original library on the crashed laptop.
With my original computer out of commission there must be some way of creating a new library on my second computer and managing my music from the iPhone. My only copy of the music files is on the iPhone. How do I move these to the new laptop?

You should be able to recover the media with the tips in this post from forum regular Zevoneer but I'm not sure what the implications are for your application settings. You can probably transfer your purchases into a newly authorised library, backup the device, recover any other media using third party tools, then restore the device from the backup. That might switch the assocation of the device to the new machine but I couldn't say for sure.
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http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy
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paulcb wrote:
I looked at Touchcopy. but I don't want to spend money on something that I feel should be built into the OS.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
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