Transfering Itunes to new harddrive

[colinrob]

Hope someone can help I have recently changed my computer but I kept the old hard drive to use as a portable hard drive have 13g of music in itunes on old hard drive i transfered it to the new hard drive with new itunes but now i cannot access any of the old tunes (it shows them in itunes but when I try playing them or downloading to my ipod it say that it cannot access them) any help would be greatly apreciated
Thanks colin

[hut49]

This is done by setting the Ipod up as an external drive - all the details are here, I followed it last weekend and it worked perfectly first time:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173

[mmm-five]

Or you just point iTunes to your new iTunes music folder by going to options/preferences menu, then the 'advanced' tab and 'general' sub-tab and then clicking 'change...' on the 'iTunes Music folder location'

[pmanson]

Go to ipodlounge.com (i think thats right).

You can download a bit of software from there which can allow you to copy them to and from different ipods/pcs into itunes.

[DennisTheMenace]

#Ive just done it using the ipod and it works , still a few files lying around on the old pc that need moving over but i will burn them to cd and move em that way , surprised ive not fecked this pc yet

[sjg]

(assuming Windows, but Mac is very similar)

Copy the music from the old drive to exactly the same place on the new one (if you keep it under "My Music", your username must stay the same).

You'll also find under "My Music" a couple of library files - "iTunes Music Library.xml" and "iTunes Library.itl". Copy these files from your old disk to the new one - make sure iTunes isn't running while you do this.

If the library files are moved and the music is in the same place on the new disk as it is on the old, it should just start up as it was before, including your song ratings.

[colinrob]

Thanks for your help I will try tommorrow