


If the drive is accessible then using your old drive may well be easier than what follows, though it depends in part on the mix of purchased vs. The steps in Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows may help to allow iTunes to properly access any recovered data. If you still have the computer, but it is in a non-bootable state, then it may be possible to extract the hard drive, put it in an external drive bay and recover data from it that way. If, however the library that has been lost or damaged was on your current computer see Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash first.

Should you be in the unfortunate position where your computer has been lost, stolen or damaged and you have no viable backup of your library then you can use the steps below to attempt to recover most, if not all, of your media and other information from your devices. See Move your iTunes library to a new computer for advice on moving a working library to a new computer if that is still a possibility. In general if you try to connect and sync an Apple device to a new library iTunes will want to erase all the current media content and replace it with items from the new library.
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Apple's iTunes software is, in the main, designed to transfer data to their devices but not in the other direction.
