iPod question

My hard drive got fried a couple weeks ago, and I lost over 1,500 songs. Luckily, all the songs are on my iPod.
My question is, does anyone know of a good and FREE program that I can download to move songs to an external hard drive.
There are a lot of programs on the Internet, but I'm not sure which ones are reliable.
Thanks.

 

Mac or PC?

 

I don't know if you can access those programs from Russian-occupied Vienna. Better hit the sewers again.

 

Not sure I understand. Can't you just click and drag to the external? I mean, once you sync your iPod to the new drive, that's all you have to do (unless I'm missing something here...)

 

Harry, I used one, have to get home to tell you what it was for certain, but I think it was sharepod.

Free online, worked like a charm.

 

Sharepod works well, as does senuti (I thought it was funny cause it's itunes backwards).

 

Can't let that pass without props.

 

Killick, the problem is that if he synced his iPod to the new drive, his iPod would be wiped clear.

When this happened to me I researched and came up with a way to do it manually. Basically, if you know what you're doing you can reveal hidden folders in Windows, then find all the files (they're in totally random order spread out among about 100 folders) and copy them to your new hard drive. After that, import via iTunes and you'll see the tag information was preserved.

I must say, not a fun process if you've got 30 gigs of stuff to restore. Better than losing it all, however.

 

Senuti is great.
I can't believe I didn't realize that was iTunes backwards until Diabeetus pointed it out.