iPod IPOD data recovery with unusual circumstances

[donttasemebro]

Hi All,
I am in a predicament. I have a 40GB IPOD Classic, prehistoric yes, but it has roughly 500CDs that I burned on it. As part of a class action lawsuit, I mailed my IPOD to those fine folks at Apple to give me a longer-life battery, who assured me they would not touch anything other than the battery. Since it was returned, there is not a single song on it and the hard drive appears to have been wiped clean. To complicate matters, the PC desktop with the ITunes software from which I burned the 500 CDs has since fried its motherboard, so I can access that PC only through the hard drive that I extracted from it and by accessing it through a different laptop.

I dont really care about the PC, it was garbage, but what is the best way to get my music back on to the ipod?

I have seen some IPOD recovery services where supposedly they can recover your music--any thoughts/experiences?

Is it only possible to repair this issue by repairing the motherboard and getting the PC of origin to work once again?

Thanks in advance for your sage advice.

 

[PkennethV]

I may have misunderstood but...can't you just re-sync the songs onto your iPod after getting them off of the hard drive of the old PC?

 

[donttasemebro]

Well, I don't know how to re-synch, actually, and more importantly, when I search the entire Itunes Folder and all applications, I cannot find anything containing my 500 CDs of music. I think I may have installed Itunes on the desktop, and I have found in general that I can access whatever information I had in the files, but I cannot seem to access any of the things contained in the desktop. When I search for .mp3, I cant find anything. I know this may reveal my stunning Ipod ignorance, but I am not sure where your songs are stored when you burn them in with the Itunes software, but I assume that a .mp3 search of the entire hard drive would find them. If you can recommend a way to search and synch, or direct me to a site, I am all ears (and eyes). Thanks.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Using windows, they're located in your my documents>My music folder. And they might be .aac files, not .mp3.

Also, if the music's not on the iPod, then it's probably a different hard drive and impossible to recover from the iPod.