V important ipod help!

[motorsportrescue]

Hi all, need some advice, Recently my laptop went wrong and deleted all my pics, all the ones of my little boy and everything, I cannot put it into word how gutted I was, until......
I realised I'd backed up all my pics onto my ipod!
However, I've now bought a PC and an external hard drive, but I think when I put itunes onto it it's going to delete and refresh my ipod back to blank again thus losing all my pics.
How can I get all the pics ioff my ipod without refreshing it?

Andy

[MentalSarcasm]

I think that if you don't load/install iTunes, but plug the iPod in, the computer loads it like a USB stick giving you several options, including "Open folder to view files"? In which case you then just drag and drop everything from the iPod folder to the computer.

[schmalex]

Before you load iTunes on to your PC, cCan you not just connect it to the USB port on your PC, open Windows Explorer & browse for the device as a normal USB memory stick?

[ewenm]

Plug the iPod in before installing iTunes. FInd it in Windows Explorer and pull the files off it. Alternatively, install iTunes and set it to not automatically refresh your iPod.

Way too slow Ewen, way too slow.

Edited by ewenm on Monday 11th August 22:21

[motorsportrescue]

Cheers all, I'm so hoping this is going to work, my wifes just been crying looking at all the pics that we thought we lost. I'm going to try it tomorrow when my brother comes over just incase I do something wrong!
The moral of the story is................ Back up all your pics onto a hard drive!
Cheers

[Mars]

motorsportrescue said:

The moral of the story is................ Back up all your pics onto a hard drive!
Cheers

No, back them up onto something you can't delete them off. Like CDs/DVDs. And do multiple copies. CDs and DVDs are cheap.

[richyb]

What do you mean 'laptop went wrong'? Files don't get deleted provided you haven't written over them even if you can't see them in a directory anymore. You can use a recover program to recover jpgs, mpegs etc. Google 'smart recovery'. As long as you haven't formatted the HDD you can get them all back fairly easily.

Edited by richyb on Monday 11th August 22:31