Posted by Kathi on 07/18/06 09:13

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:19:41 -0700, Michael Vilain wrote:
>> I recently bought an iPod and installed iTunes and loaded my mp3 files into
>> iTunes and then downloaded those mp3 songs to the iPod and all was well.
>> Then, my Windows XP computer crashed and had to be rebuilt
>> When I install iTunes, I add the SAME serial number to the iPod but iTunes
>> doesn't upload the mp3 songs in the iPod into the iTunes library.
>> Can't I just upload my mp3 files back into the iTunes library?

> Did you know when you install Windows, your system is given an unique ID
> #? That number isn't the same when you reinstall Windows, so iTunes
> thinks you're trying to install on a separate machine. Have you brought
> this issue up on a Windows newsgroup? They might be able to help with
> reauthorizing your machine after the reload.

Hmmmmmmmm.... maybe the answer is to "trick" Windows XP into using the same
GUID that the original machine had (it's the same machine, just with the
operating system rebuilt from the recovery disks due to the disk crash).

Does anyone on the expanded CC list know how to change the GUID of the
Windows XP machine back to what it was? Maybe then, my iPod would upload
the songs back into the PC (everything else, including the iPod is exactly
the same as it was before the Windows crash).

Kathi

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