Finding lost songs in my iTunes library

I have an external hard drive that I share between work and home PCs; however, I store all my music files on such drive and synch my iPod on the home computer.
After upgrading my iTunes library on the work computer, I experienced some technical issues and had to choose to synch with a library. By accident, I chose the home library on the external hard drive. I then noticed that the number of songs on the home library were less than those that are on my iPod, which was last synched to the same library but using the home computer. I want the number of songs on my iPod currently to match up to the home library but I'm unsure how to do so. Help!!!

It sounds like your home PC might have some files on its internal C: hard drive, that are not on your work PC or the exHD.
If you go back home and sync your ipod, does it all show up again?

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