Ipod potential disaster

[Zen]

But that's only one GB of storage.
What other accoutrement's do you need?
Battery?
Battery charger?

I got 5 GB's and one AA battery.
Fiddy dollars.
(and it says ZEN on the front )

[sandra]

This is how you copy your iTunes music back to your harddrive:

For Windows users to transfer music from an iPod to your hard drive, without extra software:

1. Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.
2. In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.
3. In the Tools menu -> Options, in the View Tab, check "Show hidden files and folders."
4. Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen 'pod, the full path is
Portable Media Devices\GINA'S IPOD (F\iPod_Control\Music
5. Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

And you're done! The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up. (To do this, in iTunes Edit menu, choose Preferences and in the Advanced tab, check "Keep iTunes Music Folder organized.")

[withm]

Wow - all these solutions - I did not realize how easy it could be.

The good news is that my friendly neighborhood computer store was able to salvage everything (I think....) from my hard drive though the drive itself is toast. I got back all my thousands of emails, address book, favorites, photos, music, not to mention the files. I really was becoming resigned to losing most of it (I had the most important stuff backed up) but I am really happy that I got it all back.

Now I have to figure out why my external HDD is not automatically backing up like it's supposed to. Grrrrr.

[crazybikinchic]

Hey. Good news for us to. They got his computer working again. Still have all of our I-tunes