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I own the music on there but if you lose the hard drive or your computer, you've lost your itunes program and what is on your ipod is there but cannot be edited. The first time I bought a program that would copy from my ipod to my itunes on the new computer. When I went to use it the next time the hard drive went I would have had to buy the third-party software again since it is only a 1 year license. You cannot copy the files from one drive to another since the itunes must be a new install in windows. Not sure if I am making myself clear here, but my ipod content is exactly as it was 2 years ago and cannot be changed unless I buy third party software to do it. So I have a $250 ipod (yes, that is what I paid for it) that does not do what Apple promised it would do.

What model iPod do you have? iPod touch? I am confused. The iTunes library is not part of iTunes. Didn't you back it up? Someone is telling you wrong. You should be able to backup all your music in your iTunes to another iTunes install with no problem. And there are scads of freeware apps to get your music off the iPod and depending on the model of ipod, you can edit content directly on the iPod.

I've pinged Martib_fierro to this question. He knows a lot more about iPods on Windows than I do.

Thanks for replying. It is an Ipod Classic 120 gb. It is charging right now so I will try again after it charges. I also still have my old hard drives and have access to all that was on it synced with them and the original content is on them.

I will let you know how it goes ...

Thanks.