Cant Restore I-tunes Library After Crash

Hello everyone, my computer crashed on monday but luckily I had backed up my library. I downloaded I-tunes and try to restore my library and the first disc did fine but when the second one tried to run I got an error saying "an unknown error occurred (-69)" Can some one please help me out?
Thanks Yall!
Dusty.

Hmmm, usually that unknown error -69 is related to syncing an iPod, not restoring backups from disc.
How did you do the restore? What version of itunes was it in? What version ofitunes are you using now?

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