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Doing my best not to melt-down

Feb 4, 2010 9:52AM PST

Alright here is the dealio...

80 gig Ipod Classic
OS- Windows Seven
Itunes- Up to date, but I currently uninstalling it to try an older version.

As with many Apple products life was great until...well I don't know what the hell happened. My Ipod was playing fine, I then plugged it into my new laptop to manually add some new music. Thats when a message flashed that certain files were missing, didn't think much of it until I ejected it and found ALL my music was gone. So I plugged it back in to find Itunes does not acknowledge the existance of my Ipod. However, my computer does and it shows that there is about 35 gig (the amount of music I had) worth of space still taken up on the Ipod. The Ipod works fine unplugged, minus any music.

Now I have tried nearly everything...
The 5 R's (restore, retry, etc...)
Uninstalled Itunes and all Apple files attached
Put the Ipod in disk mode
Changed the drive letter
Turning the Ipod off while plugged in
Gently pleading with Itunes to please forgive my Ipod for whatever it did...you get the idea

Well any ideas? I really can't stress enough how badly I need the music on there now. As with most young men I have choose to ignore previous life lessons that showed me the importance of backing everything up.

Please...Please Help Me

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I am your savior
Feb 4, 2010 1:59PM PST

Use YamiPod to extract the misic from your iPod. BACK IT UP somewhere and restore your iPod. Drag and drop your music to your iPod via iTunes and voila, you have a working iPod!

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try a different computer
Feb 5, 2010 5:40AM PST

what about your old laptop? will it work in on it?

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before you plugged the iPod into the new machine
Feb 5, 2010 5:45AM PST

had you moved your iTunes library over from the old machine?

Attaching an iPod (any flavor) to a computer (any computer) with an empty iTunes library and allowing an automatic sync will result in a sync that transfers the empty computer library to the iPod and will result in an empty iPod.

Take a look at the various methods of transferring your iTunes library from the old to the new machine. If that fails, download a copy of iRip (google for it) and suck the tunes off the ipod onto your new machine. iRip is free.

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