If you need to reformat you C drive and reload your itunes what happens to the tracks purchased? are they lost

I need to reformat my pc due to a virus. On my C drive i have a large library of itunes purchased. I am afraid that I will loose all thoses songs and have to re buy them. Does someone know what happens to song previously purchased if you had to reload itunes. Are they lost forever or is there a way to get them back as you have paid for the download.





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If you need to reformat you C drive and reload your itunes what happens to the tracks purchased? are they lost
STOP.





Download windows defender from microsoft - it's free - let that deal with the virus.





Also try Avast Anti Virus if Defender fails.





You WILL lose all your tunes if you reformat.





Try copying the "My music" folder to a DVD or something first.
Reply:yes
Reply:If you have all of your tunes on your ipod there are ways to transfer song from ipod to computer.





I have done this 3 times now for different friends and it works but for some reason, apple dont like us doing it?
Reply:I had this same problem, and yes, they are lost. The best thing for you to do is go buy an external hard-drive to backup your entire music library too (along with your documents etc) before trashing the machine. I got a 250Gb drive for this, it only cost me £80, and if you are in the US, will be cheaper still.
Reply:You have three options to get purchased tracks back.





1. Find and download a program to get the songs back off your iPod.





2. The new iTunes 7 will take only purchased tracks back off your iPod for you if the computer is authorized to play them.





3. Contact Apple and ask them nicely. They have bailed me out once before. I think it is kind of like returning items to a store. They probably keep track to make sure you aren't doing it too much, but they don't mind helping out real customers with real problems.
Reply:That happened to me a while back, too. I bought an external hard drive. Got a 100 gb drive for $60 at Best Buy. Plug it in and copy all your songs.
Reply:you can make a back up for all your songs. use a cd-rw and burn them with using the data disc format. Itunes 7 makes it easier