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Originally Posted by Boomer

I am an idiot.

My laptop, which I seldom use except when I am on the road, went into the shop. It was in crisis. In spite of Norton. My computer guy asked me what needed to be saved. I said, "Not much. The pictures. Word docs. That's it."

But just now, I had a vision. A vision of all those iPod tunes that Mr. B had transferred there for me from all those old CD's and even tapes and yes....I admit it.... from vinyl. All that music had been a long time in residence on that neglected laptop of mine.

I just called the computer guys and said, "Hello, I am Boomer of the really messed up laptop that I had not used for a long time. Have you started on it yet? It really is OK if you have not."

But, alas, they had started. Almost finished. But he did say that the guy working on it might have saved the music anyway. I really do not know yet. For sure. There might be hope.

So all I am really asking here is whether or not all those songs -- B. B. King and classical stuff and country (all the way from Patsy Cline to now) and old rock and roll and lots of piano stuff (Vladimir Horowitz to Jerry Lee Lewis) and Ella Fitzgerald and Sinatra and The Rolling Stones and Jimmy Buffet (can't forget about him) -- about 7GB of my little world of the music I like -- if all those songs are gone from the laptop, can they be put back on from the iPod? Can it work both ways?

Mr. B just told me that he had backed up a lot of them, but not all. Well, that's a start. I was so afraid that if all of them are gone, I was going to have to listen to Mr. B's iPod which is way too full of music he listened to in his Army days in Okinawa in the 70's. Yeah, I love Santana. But that was on mine, too. You see, I am a multi-faceted woman. I had all kinds of music on my laptop. And iPods probably do not last forever.

So while I wait to find out for sure, if I really did cause my laptop and my iPod to break up, could somebody please tell me if there is a chance that I can get them back together?

Thanks.

Boomer

External hard drives are worth gold when it comes to situations like this. And they are pretty cheap lately. I maintain two of them and have all my pics and docs backed up constantly both from the desktop and laptop. You never know when disaster will strike.

-Dave-