[i4n]

G,

2 ways to do it mate.

1) Copy the entire iTunes folder (including the sub-folders - mines under "music" in my documents ) to an external hard drive. This does the library and everything so when you've done your format you install iTunes again and copy everything back to where it was before.

2) Open iTunes and goto file | Library | Backup to disc and then keep feeding the DVD or CD into the computer until it finishes. Once you re-formatted and installed iTunes again you open iTunes up and put the first backup disc in and it does the rest.

I've done both ways and prefer the hard drive method as you just set it off and let it go rather than having to pop back every few min to feed another disc to the computer.

If you want to use the same music on two PC you have to have all of iTunes on an external hard drive, tell iTunes to look at that drive (on both machines) and just move the hard drive around between the two. If you have two separate libraries on iTunes the iPod will recognise it and say you can only synch to one library, this way fools it as it is the same library being moved around. I used to do this when I had a desktop and a laptop.


Ian