Two iPhones/iPods, two music collections

I dug up an old iPhone of mine and I want to fill it with music as a gift. It's for a restaurant owner who cooks me breakfast practically every morning and still fills up a CD carousel. I want to fill it with hundreds of classic rock songs I have on a storage drive. Occasionally, I'll take the iPod and put new music on it while I'm having breakfast.
The thing is, I don't want this iPod and its music mixing with my current music collection and my current iPhone. What's the best way to manage this separate device with a separate music collection?
One solution I thought of was to create a new user profile on my Macbook Pro, but this would seem to be a waste of precious hard drive space, all that extra space required for an OS X user profile.

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Very easily. I have an iPod touch and iPad on the same account with totally different content.
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Hi All,
I will describe my current setup and the required setup below. Please help me with the steps to do this
Current setup:
OS: Windows 7
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2011 ilounge article: Transferring your iTunes library - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/ - An article with good background information (similar to the links above), particularly if you are not sure your media files are all grouped for quick answer above. Unfortunately under the single term "transferring library" it describes two very different moves; relocating just your media (not really transferring your library and not recommended unless you really need this configuration), and relocating media+database (really your whole "library"). Make sure you understand the difference before electing to move only media.
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