Can't add four specific albums to library off of external hard drive

For some reason after my last sync quite a few songs on my iPod were no longer playing. It would show that they were on the iPod, but they would not play and would simply skip straight to the next song even if the iPod was paused when that song was on. I found that if I deleted the songs from my iTunes and then synced my iPod again after putting them back in the library it would solve the problem. I use an external hard drive to contain my iTunes library, and there is one folder on it that contains four music albums in their own folders, respectively. Songs from one of the albums in the previously mentioned folders were not playing, so I deleted that album. However, when I tried to put it back in my library it did not work. I've tried doing the 'Add folder to library...' and the 'add file to library...' as well as moving the folder onto my computer's hard drive, making a copy of the files, and moving the files around on the external hard drive. Any suggestions on why this is happening only to this one folder and these four albums, and if so, how to fix it? I am currently running iTunes 11.1.3.8 on Windows 8. Thank you.

I'm not certain, but perhaps this user tip would help:
Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.
Alternatively have you checked the drive for errors? Will the tracks play in Windows Media Player or MediaMonkey?
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Eels290776 wrote:
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and when I next connect the external hard drive how will I easily get the newly downloaded media onto the external HD
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