iPod,a broken HDD, and a pc

Searched but couldnt find the answer so sorry if its been asked before.

My daughter has an Ipod Mini. Normally she uses her laptop(pc) and itunes. Recently the hdd went KABOOM! I replaced the HDD and tried but failed to resuurrect the old hdd, but to no avail ( it had the death click if anyone knows what i mean )

Now shes got an ipod full of music but cant somehow transfer them back to the hard drive. We searched for some software to do this but it seems we have to pay for that

Anyone any idea how we can load the songs back to her laptop with the new hard drive or has Apple not considered hardware failure before ?

Thanks in advance

How good are you with computers? You can do it through Linux, this is how I did it with my g/f's Ipod. Basically you just boot up into linux (you could probably use a bootable CD-ROM), and mount the Ipod. It shows up with 2 partitions, under OSX and Winblows you can only see and mount 1 of them, but on linux you can see the hidden one. You just mount it and copy over the files.

Sounds easy, well it is when you have been using various *NIX's for almost 10 years.

--lifeafter2am

trpnmonkey41 said:

http://www.ephpod.com/

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Thanks guys

Yamipod is useful for transferring songs from iPod - Mac

http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/