EVERYTHING ERASED- HELP

I dont know what happened but I went to open itunes today and everything in it was erased and it says "itunes currupt file please run the chkdsk utility" WHat is that and how do I get all of my stuff back?? PLEASE HELP
Windows XP

OK, first, calm down.
Secondly - you say "iTunes corrupt file please run chkdsk" - do you mean the iTunes.exe wouldn't open, or that iTunes opened and then gave a dialog with that message? If the first is true, then it's probably iTunes, and not your music collection, that is corrupted.
You can check whether your music still exists by going to you My Music folder, which is where iTunes puts your music unless you've told it to do different. Go check. If the music is still there, then it's a problem with your iTunes application. Your music collection is not lost.
Next, back up your PC. Then, go to My Computer, right click on the primary hard drive (usually C:\) and click Properties. Then go to the Tools tab and click the "Check Now" button under "Error-checking". It will probably tell you to restart your PC. Do so.
After that, if your PC is OK, I would try reinstalling iTunes. It may be that your hard drive is on the way out though (depends how old your computer is), which is why data is becoming corrupted. Hopefully that won't be the case though.
Good luck.
Custom Windows XP Pro

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