Creating directory from external hardrive to a new copy of Itunes

Hi there, this is a little complicated so please bear with me. Not long ago, luckily after having consolidated and moved all my music onto an external hard drive, my laptop crashed and died. I am at the moment waiting for a new one and using a spair computer in the interim. I have downloaded the itunes program onto this spair computer and what i want to be able to do is create a directory on this spair computer to the hard drive so i can listen to my music without having to download it all onto the spair computer (which is really rubish and has a tiny hard drive). Is there a way of doing this? When the new computer arrives i will download it from hard drive but i don't want to do it on this. I would be extremely appreciative for any help!! Thanks, Harry

Start iTunes and press and hold Shift.
Select *Create new library*.
Select the external drive.
Now got othe external and move all the music into the *iTunes music folder* in the *iTunes folder* you just created.
In iTunes, select File -> *Add folder to library*.
Select the *iTunes music folder* in the *iTunes folder* on the external.

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