External hard drive - Everything is gone

Yesterday I purchased a new external hard drive as my old one had been playing up... I managed to transfer some of my files over before the old one went a weird & wouldn't display any of my files.
Now it's showing there's 320gig available, there was 300gig of music on it yesterday morning...
Does this mean I've lost everything? Any way of recovering anything??

I suspect your library has been transformed from the old layout into the new one. See make a split library portable for details. The empty but for artwork folders you're seeing are likely to contain orphaned artwork and .ini files generated at some point by Windows Media Player. iTunes doesn't move these when it shuffles things around. Once you've made sure you can move the artist folders sideways or down into another folder, make sure nothing else has been affected, then remove.
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