When I started up my laptop, the itunes icon had disappeared along with with library of songs. I tried a system restore - the itunes icon reappeared but on clicking it, windows tried to install itunes but failed because quicktime was missing. Most of the songs are on my ipod but i do not know what will happen if I try to connect my ipod back to the laptop. What should I do?

try starting in safe mode (pressing F8 after you turn it on) and run a your anti virus scan.

when you restore a laptop or desktop it wipes everything clean on the new install.

Plug into itunes, do a backup, then do a system restore. This happened to me once, when I did this, the icon reappeared.

Your library lists songs detected by the laptop but not on your laptop. It might be detecting your home network or a music player.

1. Launch iTunes.
2. Click the iTunes drop down menu at the top of the screen.
3. Select "Preferences"
4. Select "Advanced". Its icon is a gear, at the far right of the window.
5. Select "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder..." in the upper middle of the window.
6. Select "Sharing" at the top of the window Its roughly in the middle.
7. Select "Look for Shared Libraries."

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This error occurs when iTunes tries to send files to your iPod, but a file (or files) is unusable (something is wrong with it).
To figure out which file (or files) is causing the error, update to the latest version of iTunes and then do this:

1. Control-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) on your iPod icon in the iTunes Source pane, then choose Sync Songs from the shortcut menu.
2. Watchthe display at the top of the iTunes window while your iPod is beingupdated. The name of the problematic file should appear in the displayright before the error appears. Then remove the bad file from the listof songs to be synced to your iPod.
3. Select the iPod in the iTunes Source pane.
4. Click the Settings tab.
5. Selectthe "Only sync checked items" checkbox (please note that this checkboxis only available for an iPod configured to update automatically).
6. Selectthe appropriate item under Library in the sidebar and find the bad filein the list. (For example, if the file in question was a song you wouldselect Music in the iTunes Source pane. If it were a video you wouldselect Movies or TV Shows in the sidebar.)
7. Deselect the checkbox next to the file name.
8. Repeatsteps 1 and 2 to update your iPod. If you have multiple problematicfiles in your iTunes library, you may need to repeat the other steps toremove them too.

To prevent future issues, you should delete the unusable files from your iTunes library, then restore them from a backup or reimport them from a CD.
If you're not able to isolate to any single file or if another iPodworks with the same songs, then disconnect any other devices connectedto USB or FireWire and try again. If the issue continues, then then tryresetting your iPod. If the issue continues, then restore your iPod.

ok what u have to do is this,

find the songs u dont want anymore and uncheck them in itunes and find the songs u want to add and check them, now go to itunes settings and change the syncing options to sync only checked items and then sync the ipod and the stuff u want gone will be gone a the stuff u want there will be there. :)

that is because the songs have not been transferred to your ipod yet....connect your ipod to your pc....open itunes.....select all songs from your music library and drag them to your ipod icon....the songs will start getting transferred....therafter you can listen them on your ipod too....

i dont have a softwear in my ipod a1137

When you try to sync files to any iPod in iTunes on a Mac or Windows computer, you might see the following -69 error message:
"Attempting to copy to the disk failed. An unknown error occurred (-69)"This error occurs when iTunes tries to send files to your iPod, but a file (or files) is unusable (something is wrong with it).


To figure out which file (or files) is causing the error, update to the latest version of iTunes and then do this:

1. Control-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) on your iPod icon in the iTunes Source pane, then choose Sync Songs from the shortcut menu.
2. Watch the display at the top of the iTunes window while your iPod is being updated. The name of the problematic file should appear in the display right before the error appears.Then remove the bad file from the list of songs to be synced to your iPod:
   
3. Select the iPod in the iTunes Source pane.
4. Click the Settings tab.
5. Select the "Only sync checked items" checkbox (please note that this checkbox is only available for an iPod configured to update automatically).
6. Select the appropriate item under Library in the sidebar and find the bad file in the list. (For example, if the file in question was a song you would select Music in the iTunes Source pane. If it were a video you would select Movies or TV Shows in the sidebar.)
7. Deselect the checkbox next to the file name.
8. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to update your iPod. If you have multiple problematic files in your iTunes library, you may need to repeat the other steps to remove them too.

To prevent future issues, you should delete the unusable files from your iTunes library, then restore them from a backup or reimport them from a CD.


If you're not able to isolate to any single file or if another iPod works with the same songs, then disconnect any other devices connected to USB or FireWire and try again. If the issue continues, then then try resetting your iPod. If the issue continues, then restore your iPod.

Your library needs to be rebuilt to version 8.0 before ITunes will work. Once the database is rebuilt, your songs will reappear in Itunes for use.

Give Itunes the library that your files are in using the folder options. Itunes will rebuild the library off of those settings.

Backup your purchased songs asap.