Rebuilding my iTunes library

iwanttoberich

My computer died a few days ago - well, it comes on but there is no power to the keyboard or monitor. I have bought a new laptop and the only thing I desperately want is my iTunes library. Does anyone know how to transfer the music on my iPod to my new computer? I have been looking it up on the internet and it seems so complicated that I am sure I will mess it up and lose everything.

The alternative is to hope that the computer shop near to me can copy the files off my hard drive, assuming that my hard drive is actually working properly.

Why, oh why, didn't I back it up when I was thinking of it the day before!!! :mad:

bigblackdog

isnt there an ap for this?

Browntoa

book yourself into nearest Genius bar

http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/geniusbar/

take laptop and ipod.....

googler

If you do buy a new computer, then take the HDD out of the current one and install it as a secondary drive in the new computer.

Install iTunes on the primary HDD of the new one, then copy/paste the iTunes library from the secondary drive to the primary.

Don't send your current hard drive away to any repair shop. Take control of your data, rather than leaving it to anyone else.

iwanttoberich

googler wrote: »

If you do buy a new computer, then take the HDD out of the current one and install it as a secondary drive in the new computer.

Install iTunes on the primary HDD of the new one, then copy/paste the iTunes library from the secondary drive to the primary.

Don't send your current hard drive away to any repair shop. Take control of your data, rather than leaving it to anyone else.

Thanks for the suggestions. Googler, is there an idiot guide to taking out the HDD from my old computer? I am not very technical.

googler

iwanttoberich wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions. Googler, is there an idiot guide to taking out the HDD from my old computer? I am not very technical.

There's loads of them all over the interweb, video guides on YouTube, etc

It's not difficult. You may not be technically-minded at the moment, but you want to learn new stuff, don't you....?

Google for;

"installing secondary hard drive ide / sata"

or similar terms - vary them to get different results. Look at videos on YouTube - use the search feature there

Determine whether you've got IDE or SATA HDD. There's guides for that too.

googler

I'm also surprised that the iTunes library is considered the most important item of data on your HDD.

Don't you have any personal data on there? If so, don't you want to safeguard it, rather than trusting it to some repairer?

iwanttoberich

googler wrote: »

I'm also surprised that the iTunes library is considered the most important item of data on your HDD.

Don't you have any personal data on there? If so, don't you want to safeguard it, rather than trusting it to some repairer?

I always email myself a copy of personal stuff and important documents just in case my computer crashes, so those things I can easily retrieve. I had a boss once that kept on preaching the benefits of saving a copy of everything somewhere other than your computer. I am just mad that I didn't back up my computer (onto an external hard drive) when I thought of it.

As the old saying goes, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.