Hi all, very new to this forum.

Recently had major problems with laptop crashing. Have managed to copy all my music, videos and photos from my c drive to an external hard drive (HDD).

Have now got the laptop fixed by re-loading windows but everything is wiped from the hard drive.

If I reload an iTunes account can I just sync/convert the music etc from the external HDD to the iTunes library or do I have to change the source settings or anything else, also everytime I connect my iPod touch to my computer do I need to also have the external HDD connected. I am very reluctant to copy all th stuff back to the C drive on my laptop.

First time I have had problems and it has been a nightmare!! Any advice would be very grateful.

Thanks.