• 2 years of downloading music
• Hours and hours spent lovingly putting together playlists in iTunes and then transferring them onto the ipod
• The joy of listening to my 25 gigs of pure music pleasure

And then one day- CRASH! Adios and goodnight to the hard drive on my trusty laptop…..and over a thousand songs in iTunes. (Here’s the ‘I told you so’ moment- I should have backed everything up, either by burning onto CD’s, DVD’s or transferring to a backup hard drive. But I did not do it. If I had I wouldn not be writing this blog now….and you would not be reading it!)

All the tunes were on my iPod (40gig photo), but Apple do not let you transfer the songs back onto your computer. More on why in a later post.

I went on the internet and searched ‘data recovery’, ‘mac data recovery’, ‘hard drive recovery’- you name it. Over days I analysed scores of search results to find out how to get my songs back. I did it and in the end it was easy.

But I was amazed that nobody had just done a simple guide to all the data recovery software that’s out there that would help dumb guys like me rescue their tunes. That is what this is all about!

In these posts I am going to tell you about the software that is out there, which one I used and how I got the tunes back. So relax-you are going to copy your tunes back from your ipod!

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