I recently bought an ipod, and synced it with iTunes, however that computer broke for some reason and we got a new hard drive.

Now when i plug in my ipod and go to sync music it says that it will delete all my music and playlists from my ipod and replace it with the music on there (i want to download some songs, and recently bought an album so there is onlt about 12 songs there...)

Please say there is an easy way to fix this!

You can get the tracks off it first with this
http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/

Use your backup.

Set itunes to manual control of your ipod.

And then you can never sync it automatically again?

Thats a workaround, not a solution .... you might as well drag'n'drop like the rest of us philistines!