Trying to transfer songs to a new computer

I was using my ipod as an external hard drive to transfer songs to my new computer. I followed all the instructions from this site to the letter, and yet when I ejected the ipod from the one computer and plugged it into the new one, it said the ipod was corrupted and would have to be restored, which as I understand it will erase everything on the ipod. Anybody have any experience with this? As a side note, when I tried to check to see if I could still download the music files from the ipod-as-hard-drive, my new computer said the hard disc had to be formatted first which again will erase everthing in the files. Do I have to format the ipod as a hard disc first and then go back and do the whole drag songs to a file thing all over again? Sorry for how long this is, but thanks if anyone can shed some light.

Sadly it sounds as though you may have to restore it and do this process over again.

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