This sucks. Total reformat - No backup.

[woot7800GT]

Hey all, I know it's been a while since I've been on the forums but I recently encountered a massive system failure after a botched upgrade of Norton System Works. Unfortuneately I have been forced to completely reformat and start over. So here I sit, at a mostly blank computer.

My problem is that I was not able to backup ANY files before I had to reformat. I lost everything.

So, I'm pretty sure this has been asked before but, how can I transfer all of my songs that are on my iPod back into iTunes? I really wanna get all my music back on here soon. Is there a program you can refer me to?

Thanks for any help, and I'll probably be posting more around here for some time due to this reformat.

Cheers!

 

[Alex81388]

Okay, here we go.


Install the latest itunes, install the latest drivers for ipod.

Connect the ipod, find it through my computer. Set it to veiw hidden files. Go iPod_control, follow to media or music until you get a bunch of folders like D_1 and stuff blah blah blah. AFter you see the folders (each has it's fair share of distributed music in it, wierdly named tho), just drag ALL THE FOLDERS -not the files themselves- into itunes.

You're done, and all the formatting on the songs was saved.

Sorry i dont know the path to the folders right now, Im at school and no ipod let alone the abilty to play with one.

EDIT: The path to the folders is:

"\Ipod_control\Music"

The folders are F... (the ... satdns for numbers)

copy all of those 'F' folders into itunes!

 

[woot7800GT]

Do I have to set the iPod to be used as a hard disk?

 

[woot7800GT]

Okay, I found the folders and copied them all into my iTunes folder. They're not showing up in iTunes. I even tried to drag them all directly into the iTunes window but that's not working either.

Edit: I can copy each song individually but I don't really wanna do that with all 900+ songs.

 

[woot7800GT]

Nevermind. I got it.

 

[thebleakness]

Or you could just get idump and transfer all the songs automatically. Its worked for me before perfectly.

 

[woot7800GT]

Bah. Now you tell me. Oh well, I did it manually. Although I'm missing like 15 items... hmm.