Connection to music lost

My iTunes is on my computer, but the actual music is stored on a networked server. The motherboard on the server went bad, and had to be replaced. Now when I open iTunes, my music is not there. When I go through Windows Explorer, I can see that the music is still there. (As it should be - the hard drives were not affected at all my the motherboard crash). I've tried going into Edit, Preferences, and checking where the music folder location was, and it was correct. I tried holding down shift while starting iTunes and selecting my library, but still nothing. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get my library to reconnect with iTunes? Thank you.

Hi, and welcome to the Discussions!
I'm an iTunes for Mac user, but the process should be the same... launch iTunes and find and select "Check for purchased music" from the Advanced tab of the iTunes menubar.
This will identify what was purchased which not yet downloaded (or incompletely downloaded). When it does, it will automatically resume download from ITMS.
Here's a link with more info on this.
Gary

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