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Q: Windows Crashed and Bought a New PC. Now I can`t see any of my burned cd`s

Hello,

My pc crashed so i went and purchased a new one. When i logged into my account all my cd`s that i put into iTunes is no longer shown. How do i find all my muisc?

null, Windows 7

Posted on May 6, 2015 7:00 AM

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Q: Windows Crashed and Bought a New PC. Now I can`t see any of my burned cd`s

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  • by DaCaptain,

    DaCaptain DaCaptain May 7, 2015 6:09 AM in response to Charles328
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    May 7, 2015 6:09 AM in response to Charles328

    I think, this is a great question for this forum:

    iTunes for Windows

    However, if your PC was replaced and you didn't use iTunes Match for your CDs, you need to import them again. Or do you have a backup, that you can use?

     

    Best,

     

    DaCaptain

  • by sgtrockmtm,

    sgtrockmtm sgtrockmtm May 7, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Charles328
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    May 7, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Charles328

    Charles, if you still have the old computer, you can potentially remove the hard drive and they sell a powered case that you can place the hard drive into turning it into an external hard drive that you can then connect to your new computer and find all of your ripped cd's.

  • by KiltedTim,

    KiltedTim KiltedTim May 7, 2015 8:32 AM in response to Charles328
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    May 7, 2015 8:32 AM in response to Charles328

    Charles328 wrote:

     

    Hello,

    My pc crashed so i went and purchased a new one. When i logged into my account all my cd`s that i put into iTunes is no longer shown. How do i find all my muisc?

    No. They are not on your new PC. Neither are any of your documents or data from anything else...  tax returns, etc. unless you restored them from a backup of the old machine to the new one.

     

    You will have to either find a way to copy them from the original machine to the new one, restore a backup of your old machine to the new one, or re-rip the CDs.

     

    Think of your hard drive as a file cabinet and the files as documents... pieces of paper, or in this case, physical CDs. If you don't make copies of them, and you set the original file cabinet on fire or put it out to the curb for the trash pickup, anything that was in it is gone.