Can I have iTunes Match recognize that the Music is on my Hard Drive?

My PC (Windows 8.1) computer hard drive crashed.  My old computer was using an iTunes media file on an external hard drive so I still have that, but I also subscribe to iTunes Match.  After replacing my old internal hard drive, I went to set up iTunes, and I changed the iTunes media folder location so it would use the one on my external hard drive.  However, once I turned on iTunes Match, all of the music still shows up as being in the Cloud.   I can't figure out how to have it recognize that my music is already on that external hard drive.  It just wants me to download everything from the Cloud.   I have tons of music, and it would take days to download everything.  Is there a way to associate it with my previous library on the external  hard drive?

CHRISRMOR:  With iTunes match, as long as you uploaded all of your songs to begin with, the music should be there when you open a new iTunes on your new hard drive.  You will just have to download it all from the cloud.  If you use iTunes match on other devices, you  can download any or all of your songs from the cloud too.  So to answer your question, yes, you are correct.  When you download iTunes onto your new hard drive, authorize the computer and turn on iTunes Match and update it, then all of your songs should be there.  There is a symbol of a cloud with an arrow pointing downward that will show that it is in the cloud.  If you right-click on that symbol you can download an individual song.  Or if you select all or a group  of songs, you can download all of them with a right-click. 

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