Erasing library and syncing backup

Happy Halloween everyone!
Okay, I have been putting this off for too long and am tired of the mess.
Itunes is on my C drive along with my library. I have a backup of my music on another hard drive... so what I was going to do: Erase all the music files manually from /..mymusic/itunes/itunesmusic, verify all music is removed in iTunes, and then resync the library with the backup files on the second hard drive.
I wanted find out if this is the correct way to go about it or if there is an easier solution. I don't care about saving playlists, I only care about freeing up space for windows on my main drive.

in other words:
new harddrive, and therefore new itunes library. I have all my apps on my old library on my old harddrive whitch i cant access because it is broken. On the library on my new harddrive i have 2 new apps and i want to sync them to my phone. The problem is that in order to sync them i need to replace all the other apps because they are from another library.
What i need is to get the old apps to my new library so i can sync them with my new apps over to my phone. I have no access to my old library. Please help!

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