Windows XP Crashed - will I keep my songs?

I hope you can help. Our Windows XP crashed and it was reinstalled by the computer doctor. If I re-load ITunes and plug in my IPOD, will all of my songs come back or have I lost everything?

The content won't be transferred automatically, but you won't lose them if you're careful. Check out this post from Zevoneer for some iPod media recovery options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10570955#10570955
This is why it's strongly recommended, even by iTunes itself, that you make backups of your content, in case of just such problems like this. I highly encourage you to make a backup of your iTunes library once you get everything transferred back from your iPod. If you have an external hard drive, backing up is easy. An iPod is not a reliable backup.
Regards.

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