Need some Itunes help please!

[Jenny-momof3]

I admit....I am not the most computer savvy.

My dd is getting an Ipod touch for her 16th birthday. Both of my girls currently have an Ipod Nano. They have over 1,000 songs on Itunes. But the computer they have Itunes on just crashed last night! Does this mean that all those songs are completely gone?

I've seen people post on here that they have tens of thousands of songs in their Itunes library. How do you go about backing this up,etc. so you don't lose it? I really need some direction on this. TIA!

 

[katman2540]

chances are the hard drive may still be readable. was it a Laptop or a desktop computer? Do you have another computer, prefereably a desktop? If so I might be able to walk you through pulling the hard drive from the bad one and moving it to the other one as a secondary drive so you can access the data. Once that is done I can tell you how to copy the files from the old hard drive to the new one. Then you just have to authorize them in Itunes which is easy. I am a computer tech and build my own all the time. I have to move the files from one to another and it is pretty easy. Out of curiosity what happened to the bad computer?

p.s. I forgot to mention just because I am computer tech doesn't mean I am looking for money to help you. I would just walk you through what was needed because I hate seeing people pay places like Geek Squad for something anyone who can use a screwdriver can do.

 

[CarolAnnB]

Same thing happened to us. We went to a local computer repair shop and the guy was able to replace our hard drive and recover everything. It was not that much money, I think $75 (for the data recovery portion) because we had so much data on there (he could have charged me hundreds, I was in tears thinking of all the photos and music I had not backed up). After that we got an external hard drive that automatically backs up every day. Just got a new one last week at Best Buy on sale for $80, holds 1TB of data, it is by Western Digital.

 

[tink576]

I hope you are able to get it all back, but for safety in the future get an external hard drive and back it up regularly.

 

[Marionnette]

I admit....I am not the most computer savvy.

My dd is getting an Ipod touch for her 16th birthday. Both of my girls currently have an Ipod Nano. They have over 1,000 songs on Itunes. But the computer they have Itunes on just crashed last night! Does this mean that all those songs are completely gone?

I've seen people post on here that they have tens of thousands of songs in their Itunes library. How do you go about backing this up,etc. so you don't lose it? I really need some direction on this. TIA!

If they purchased the music from itunes then it's in the account and can be recovered that way on another computer.

If they burned the music from a CD, downloaded it from another website or captured it somehow then it becomes more complicated.

You can pay a tech a fee to recover the hard drive data (pictures, documents, mp3 files, etc.). But if the music is the only thing you want, then it might be cheaper to just copy the music off of their current ipods onto the new computer using software. I used CopyTrans to move my daughter's non-itunes files and it worked great. I think the full version was something like $20. Much cheaper than a hard drive recovery and I can use it on as many computers as I want.

As far as backing up itunes, I use an external hard drive to back up my whole computer. That includes itunes music. I've been thru a couple of crashes and doing a recovery takes so much longer than just moving the data back from the extra hard drive.