Lost all songs on Ipod, any ideas?

I upgraded to XP Professional from XP Home, and then when I put my Ipod into Itunes it cleared all my songs, any ideas on how to get them back? Also important, I always delete my music off my hard drive after I put it on the Ipod.

 

Mhh, try this tools i´m not sure if they can acess on the iPod harddrive
Tool1
Tool2

 

re-download it all off the web man
arnar

 

Your iPod only keeps music that you have on your computer. It mirrors your library. If your library is empty so is your iPod

 

ive got roughly 30gb of music and want to get a 40gb ipod, so are you saying that I cant transfer all of it to the ipod, then say format my hard drive and transfer the music back?

 

Yes you can transfer your iPod music back to your hardware, although there is a security layer apple coded in, but there are still applications that can void that layer, use this app http://www.ephpod.com/.

To alter your iTunes playlist without changing the songs on your iPod, make sure you set your iPod settings to manual not sync, read about it here. http://macs.about.com/od/ipod/a/copy_from_ipod.htm