K, well I accidentally deleted and overwrote all my music on my iPod when I plugged it into another computer with a different library and the original library is gone. I know theres software that allows me to recover all my music. CopyTrans detected all my 500 deleted songs but only allows for one song to be recovered at a time unless I pay something like $40.

I tried "iPod music recover" or "data doctor recovery ipod" (same thing) and am having a problem in which it thinks my UAC is on while its not. Is there any other free software that you guys know of?

Note: I'm not trying to copy my iPod library onto my computer. I just need to recover deleted songs from my iPod.

Thanks in advance

Hey night,

Well first of all, the key word you pointed out here is "overwritten". Once a file has been overwritten with a new file, it is not possible to retrieve the old file, because it has been "overwritten", as in the old data is no longer there! If the iPod was formatted, then the pointer to that file may still exist in it's Allocation Table. This does not mean that the data can be retrieved, only the pointer to it. So it really depends on how much of the data has been overwritten, and how much the iPod has been used since, will define how much you can actually recover.

As for recovery software, it really depends on how much you value the music that is left. When it comes to recovery software, you really do get what you pay for. I have yet to come across a free tool that does the job, or even comes close. One of the best tools I've come across is called R-Studio, which may work with your iPod, but again comes with a similar price tag. At least with this software, you can scan your iPod, and find out how much is actually retrievable before you pay for the software. Full recoveries are marked in green, partial recoveries will be marked orange, and files that cannot be recovered are marked in red.

Well I don't know if it was technically overwritten. My old library was just deleted once I linked it to a new one.

The thing is though that in CopyTrans when I scan it shows something like 1000 files and then says 500 fully recoverable, which is exactly how many songs I had on there. It only allows me to recover one song at a time though, and I have practically no money on my card so I can't purchase a license So no free options huh?

Did you delete them after copying them to your iPod night? Shows how important backups are, I'm sure you have probably realised this already.

All the free tools I've used have tend to make matters worse. The more you mess with the partition using unreliable recovery tools, the less likely you'll be to retrieve them if you decide to pay later. I have nothing to gain by trying to sell you something here night, I'm just trying to say that, in my experience, if I recommend an unreliable tool here to recover your music, you may never be able to get them back.

I'll ask the others to see if they have experience with any reliable free recovery software, bear with me...

While I cannot attest to it's reliabilty-- what do you have at this moment? a blank IPod.
Blank ones are sold in the pkg.

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