Why after loading all music into Itunes library does it erase every song on there a few days later?

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ph990
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HT1386 I just reinstalled my windows operating system and decided to put on windows 8. After loading all of my music back into a freshly installed itunes, my 4th gen ipod is not recognized by itunes. My 1st gen ipod nano works with no problem. Help!

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