?When your hard drive crashes

I had about 400 compact discs and a few itunes worth of music on my itunes when my hard drive crashed.
My music is still on my ipod but it seems if I put anything on my new itunes folder on my new hard drive, I'll lose my old music when I sync.
Is this correct?
I'd appreciate any help on how to live with this lost data on my hard drive.
Message was edited by: acb3
Message was edited by: acb3

Hi. Welcome to the forums.
Yes, Your new install will want to overwrite the iPod with a blank library given half a chance. Check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod recovery options.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
Should explain how you can drag your music back from the iPod. I've used the manual method successfully in the past. Some of the other tools can take a long time to catalogue the iPod so be patient.
tt2

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