How do I force iTunes to load all media in my iTunes folder into iTunes?

I copied over the iTunes folder from my Mac to my Windows 7 PC. I went through the instructions I found online about transfering my iTunes library from a Mac to Windows and everything seemed to work fine except when I open up iTunes the only media it shows me is my purchased media, and all my playlists are gone. iTunes doesn't show me any of the music or videos I have in my iTunes folder that is not also purchased.
I thought when I started iTunes and pointed it to the new iTunes folder it would read through everything in the folder and load it into iTunes but it has not. I can manually add my music to iTunes but it would take hours to load everything.
So how do I force the latest version of iTunes to read through the iTunes folder and load everything into my iTunes library?
Thanks.
Jesse

If were talking about iTunes Store purchases then...
In iTunes go to Edit > Preferences > Store and turn off
Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
Share details about your library with Apple
On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off
Show All Music
Close and reopen iTunes and/or reset the device and you should see your version of the metadata for each track rather than the original store data.
As given in my previous post there is a way to prepare an iTunes library for moving between systems such that it won't break the links between the library and the media. It sounds as if your library wasn't in quite the right shape to be moved successfully. Options are to go back and do it again, or you could repair what you have with my script FindTracks. For details on how it works see this thread.
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