Is my Itunes music stored only on my computer?

[coolred]

Hey guys, I somehow managed to get a virus last night that neither Norton nore AVG free edition could get rid of. I worke don it for several hours, finally did a complete reinstall of Windows. I backed up everything i thought I needed to. But forgot about my Itunes collection of songs.

So am I SOL or can I get them back somehow, does apple like have a list of the songs I had, so I can get them back somehow?

 

[aplefka]

You're SOL. Sorry man.

 

[coolred]

That blows, not a total loss really, since all the songs where free from Pepsi, but it still sucks. Can't believe I forgot about them.

 

[aplefka]

If they were all store-bought you may be in luck. I thought you meant just songs you had on your hard drive and played in iTunes. I'm sure they have record of what songs you bought and you can probably get them again.

 

[coolred]

Oh yeah, there was only about 30 or so, all where gotten with either the free ones using the pepsi codes, and a couple of them where free ones apple offered up. I am trying to see if there is a way to get them back, but I can't find anythign yet.


I did remember to back up all my non Ituned music, not sure why i forgot abotu itunes though.

 

[coolred]

Anybody else know?

 

[coolred]

The songs are still in my purchase history, but I still don't see any way of getting them back.

 

[coolred]

Sweet I emailed Itunes and told them my problem, and they are allowing me this one time to redownload all the songs I have listed in the my purchased music list. Will definately have to remember to back them up this time.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: coolred
Sweet I emailed Itunes and told them my problem, and they are allowing me this one time to redownload all the songs I have listed in the my purchased music list. Will definately have to remember to back them up this time.

Wow, that's friggen awesome! :thumbsup:

Take note, those who badmouth Apple

 

[Wahsapa]

I remember somebody having to show the confirmation email for each purchase awhile back. I'm not sure what they do now...

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: coolred
Sweet I emailed Itunes and told them my problem, and they are allowing me this one time to redownload all the songs I have listed in the my purchased music list. Will definately have to remember to back them up this time.

Wow, that's friggen awesome! :thumbsup:

Take note, those who badmouth Apple

They done this for me too when i fvked up. great service.

You could also get Getdataback from runtime software. I ended up buying it because i loved it so much

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

if you have an ipod you can retrieve your music....

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: coolred
Sweet I emailed Itunes and told them my problem, and they are allowing me this one time to redownload all the songs I have listed in the my purchased music list. Will definately have to remember to back them up this time.

Wow, that's friggen awesome! :thumbsup:

Take note, those who badmouth Apple

They done this for me too when i fvked up. great service.

You could also get Getdataback from runtime software. I ended up buying it because i loved it so much

another vote for runtime's getdataback program. that thing saved 80gb of my data.

 

[0roo0roo]

this is why you should always keep the os partition separate from media and other things. keep a 10gb o/s partition that you can easily format...ghost image or what not.

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
this is why you should always keep the os partition separate from media and other things. keep a 10gb o/s partition that you can easily format...ghost image or what not.

Exactly what I do. I just map My Documents to a folder on the second partition. (or you could just not use it)