This way you only have to deal with the music library, for which I normally recommend multiple redundant backups. The rest is pretty painless when backing up everything else via iCloud.
Right now the 1720 laptop that my iPad is synched to is having a HD failure, therefore I need to synch this present iPad to a new computer with OS windows 7. Please advise the procedure step by step on how to accomplish this task. Thank you. I am very concerned about loosing all of my wife's music on her iPad 3rd GEN. The iPad has ios 9 installed.
iPad, iOS 9, 3 rd Gen

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